Numerical and experimental study of natural convection in tilted parallelepipedic cavities for large Rayleigh numbers

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 309-324

  Bairi A ^a   Laraqi, N ^a   Garcia de Maria J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

CFD; Experimental fluid flow measurements; Heat transfer; High Rayleigh numbers; Natural convection; Radiation; Tilted parallelepipedic enclosures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MEASUREMENT THEORY;

HIGH RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; TILTED PARALLELEPIPEDIC ENCLOSURES;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 33845680271     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2006.04.017     Document Type: Article

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