Steady natural convection in a horizontal channel containing heated rectangular blocks periodically mounted on its lower wall

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 509-528

  Bakkas, M ^a   Amahmid, A ^b   Hasnaoui, M ^b  

^a MOULAY ISMAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Heated blocks; Horizontal channel; Natural convection; Numerical method; Repetitive geometry

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; HEATED BLOCKS; HORIZONTAL CHANNELS; REPETITIVE GEOMETRY;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 27844438967     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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