Numerical analysis of natural buoyancy-induced regimes in isosceles triangular cavities

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 661-678

  Omri, Ahmed ^a   Najjari, Mustapha ^a   Nasrallah, Sassi Ben ^a  

^a Institut Prparatoire Aux Etudes d'Ingnieur de Monastir   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CAVITATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ISOSCELES TRIANGULAR CAVITIES; NATURAL-CONVECTION FLOWS; PITCHFORK BIFURCATION; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 34648824446     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780701339967     Document Type: Article

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