Natural Convection of Micropolar Fluids in an Open Cavity

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 281-300

  Hsu, T H ^a   Hong, K Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRANDTL NUMBER;

ADIABATIC HORIZONTAL WALLS; CUBIC SPLINE COLLOCATION METHOD.; GRASHOF NUMBER; MICROPOLAR FLUIDS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 33745634359     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780600605591     Document Type: Article

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