Transient natural convection between concentric and vertically eccentric spheres with mixed boundary conditions

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 137-143

  Chiu, C P ^a   Chen, W R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; SPHERES; VORTEX FLOW; WALL FLOW;

RAYLEIGH NUMBER; STREAM FUNCTION; THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENT; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; VORTICITY;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 4243779870     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02333311     Document Type: Article

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