Evaluation of two RANS turbulence models in predicting developing mixed convection within a heated horizontal pipe

International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 21, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 267-276

  Grassi, W ^a   Testi, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Developing flow; Heat transfer prediction; K models; RANS equations; Turbulent mixed convection

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648975389     PISSN: 10618562     EISSN: 10290257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618560701684470     Document Type: Article

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