Buoyancy-induced heat transfer in a trapezoidal enclosure with offset baffles

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-355

  Moukalled, F ^a   Darwish, M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NUSSELT NUMBER;

OFFSET BAFFLES; TRAPEZOIDAL CAVITIES; VERTICAL WALL;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 34547508867     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910601149975     Document Type: Article

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