Natural convection from a discrete heater in enclosures filled with a micropolar fluid

International Journal of Engineering Science

Volumn 43, Issue 19-20, 2005, Pages 1409-1418

  Aydin, Orhan ^a   Pop, Ioan ^b  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER;

DISCRETE HEATERS; ISOTHERM PLOTS; MATERIAL PARAMETERS; MICROPOLAR FLUIDS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 27844464084     PISSN: 00207225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2005.06.005     Document Type: Article

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