Application of Central Difference Scheme to the solution of natural convection equations for irregular shaped enclosures

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 553-558

  Varol, Yasin ^a   Koca, Ahmet ^b   Oztop, Hakan F ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Central difference; Computational modeling; Irregular shape; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ENCLOSURES; ISOTHERMS;

ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; CENTRAL DIFFERENCE; CENTRAL DIFFERENCE SCHEME; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; IRREGULAR SHAPE; LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION; SUCCESSIVE-UNDER-RELAXATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 33947307493     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2007.553.558     Document Type: Article

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