The humidity effect on turbulent convection in a vertical channel

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 357-362

  Muresan, Cristian ^a   Bennacer, Rachid ^b   Ménézo, Christophe ^c   Vareilles, Jeremie ^c   Julien, Stephanie ^c  

^a Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment ^*  (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Humidity scalar transport; Natural convection; Vertical channel

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL FLOW; EVAPORATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

CONTROL VOLUME METHOD; HUMIDITY EFFECT; MASS FLOW; TEMPERATURE FIELD;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL FLOW; EVAPORATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; NATURAL CONVECTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33748990096     PISSN: 14684349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2006.010777     Document Type: Article

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