Turbulent natural convection flow in a vertical channel with anti-symmetric heating

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1207-1216

  Ayinde, Taofeek F ^a   Said, Syed A M ^a   Habib, Mohammed A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW RATE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUIDICS; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXED CONVECTION; NATURAL CONVECTION; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; (R ,S)-SYMMETRIC; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; CHANNEL WALLS; CLOSED CAVITIES; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; DIFFERENT SECTIONS; FLOW RECIRCULATION; FLUID FLOWING; HORIZONTAL PLANES; MEAN VELOCITY PROFILES; NATURAL CONVECTION FLOW; PARALLEL PLATES; PARTICLE-IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); SPRINGER (CO); TURBULENT NATURAL CONVECTION; TWO-DIMENSIONALITY; UNIFORM TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL CHANNELS; VERTICAL PLANES;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 46149101804     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-007-0359-z     Document Type: Article

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