Unsteady natural convection boundary-layer flow of a linearly-stratified fluid with Pr < 1 on an evenly heated semi-infinite vertical plate

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 327-343

  Lin, Wenxian ^a,c   Armfield, S W ^b   Patterson, J C ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Natural convection boundary layer; Scaling; Stratified flow

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRANDTL NUMBER;

NATURAL CONVECTION BOUNDARY LAYER; STRATIFIED FLOW;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRANDTL NUMBER;

EID: 36849090166     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2007.03.040     Document Type: Article

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