Steady natural convection flows in a square cavity with linearly heated side wall(s)

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 766-775

  Sathiyamoorthy, M ^a   Basak, Tanmay ^b   Roy, S ^b   Pop, I ^c  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Natural convection; Non uniform heating; Penalty finite element method; Square cavity

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

NON-UNIFORM HEATING; PENALTY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SQUARE CAVITY;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NATURAL CONVECTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

EID: 33845384571     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2006.06.019     Document Type: Article

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