The effects of Prandtl number on natural convection in triangular enclosures with localized heating from below

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 511-519

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

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Natural convection; Partial heating; Prandtl number; Triangular enclosure

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEATING; LINEAR ALGEBRA; NATURAL CONVECTION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VORTICITY;

PARTIAL HEATING; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TRIANGULAR ENCLOSURE;

PRANDTL NUMBER;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEATING; LINEAR ALGEBRA; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRANDTL NUMBER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VORTICITY;

EID: 34047123678     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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