Entropy production due to free convection in partially heated isosceles triangular enclosures

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1502-1513

  Varol, Yasin ^a   Oztop, Hakan F ^a   Koca, Ahmet ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Entropy; Isosceles; Natural convection; Triangular cavities

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TRIANGULAR CAVITIES;

ENTROPY;

EID: 41449091949     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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