Relationship between Nusselt number and the thermoviscous (Rott) functions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1457-1462

  Liu, Jin ^a   Garrett, Steven L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS DYNAMICS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUSSELT NUMBER; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

REGENERATOR MATERIALS; THERMOVISCOUS (ROTT) FUNCTIONS; THERMOVISCOUS F FUNCTIONS; THERMOVISCOUS FUNCTIONS;

REGENERATORS;

ARTICLE; DIRECT CURRENT; GAS; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33644645949     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2165000     Document Type: Article

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