Effect of various thermal boundary conditions on natural convection in a trapezoidal cavity with linearly heated side wall(s)

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 551-568

  Natarajan, E ^a   Roy, S ^a   Basak, Tanmay ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER;

HEAT TRANSFER RATES; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TRAPEZOIDAL CAVITY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EID: 34648828643     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790701563623     Document Type: Article

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