Convection in a cavity with variable viscosity fluid

Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 641-650

  Kandaswamy, P ^a   Sivasankaran, S ^a   Bhavani Lakshmi, M ^a   Ramaswamy, R S ^a  

^a BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Finite Difference; Heat Transfer; Prandtl Number and Nusselt Number

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745015496     PISSN: 00195588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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