Flow bifurcation due to opposing buoyancy in two vertically connected open cavities

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 49, Issue 19-20, 2006, Pages 3298-3312

  Li, Yuguo ^a   Xu, Pengcheng ^a,b   Qian, Hua ^a   Deng, Qi Hong ^a,c   Wu, Jingyi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Buoyancy flows; Computational fluid dynamics; Hopf bifurcation; Hysteresis phenomenon; Non linear analysis; Open cavity

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT SINKS; STEADY FLOW;

BUOYANCY FLOWS; HOPF BIFURCATION; HOPF BIFURCATIONS; HYSTERESIS PHENOMENON; NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT SINKS; HEAT TRANSFER; STEADY FLOW;

EID: 33745394018     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2006.03.016     Document Type: Article

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