Vibrational effect on heat transfer and entropy generation in an elliptic porous cavity

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 151-171

  Mahmud, Shohel ^a   Fraser, Roydon Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convection; Porous materials; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; PRANDTL NUMBER; SPACECRAFT; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

CONVECTION; ELLIPTIC POROUS CAVITY; MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT; ORBITER MANEUVERS; SOLAR DRAG;

HEAT TRANSFER;

ENTROPY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; PRANDTL NUMBER; SPACECRAFT; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 33644502607     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530610644244     Document Type: Article

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