Experimental study of natural convection heat transfer from vertical array of isothermal horizontal elliptic cylinders

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 240-248

  Yousefi, T ^a   Ashjaee, M ^b  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Elliptic cylinder; Interferometry; Mach Zehnder; Natural convection; Vertical array

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; INTERFEROMETRY; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; SEPARATION;

ELLIPTIC CYLINDERS; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; VERTICAL ARRAY;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

HEAT TRANSFER; INTERFEROMETRY; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; NATURAL CONVECTION; SEPARATION;

EID: 34548764288     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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