Free convection in a shallow wavy enclosure

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 764-771

  Varol, Yasin ^a   Oztop, Hakan F ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Natural convection; Wavy enclosure

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINED FLOW; ISOTHERMS; NUSSELT NUMBER; WALL FLOW;

NON-DIMENSIONAL WAVE LENGTH; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SHALLOW WAVY ENCLOSURE; STREAMLINES;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINED FLOW; ISOTHERMS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; WALL FLOW;

EID: 33646922881     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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