Numerical study of laminar natural convection in a complicated cavity heated from top with sinusoidal temperature and cooled from other sides

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 680-700

  Dalal, Amaresh ^a   Das, Manab Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VORTEX FLOW;

HEAT TRANSFER MODE; LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ENCLOSURE;

HEAT TRANSFER;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 33846337511     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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