Natural convection in a square cavity with spatial side-wall temperature variation

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 683-697

  Saeid, Nawaf H ^a   Yaacob, Yusli ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUSSELT NUMBER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

FINITE-VOLUME METHOD; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; VORTICITY-STREAM FUNCTION; WAVE NUMBER;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 33745244248     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780500359943     Document Type: Article

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