Numerical and experimental investigation of laminar free convection around a thin wire: Long time scalings and assessment of numerical approach

International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1125-1138

  Duluc, Marie Christine ^a   Xin, Shihe ^b   Lusseyran, François ^a   Le Quéré, Patrick ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Artificial boundary conditions; External free convection; Heat source; Numerical and experimental study; Scaling laws

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FOOD PRODUCTS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; PLATINUM; PRESSURE; SCALING LAWS;

BOUSSINESQ ASSUMPTION; CONSTANT FLUX; CONVECTIVE MOTIONS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES; ELSEVIER (CO); EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FAR FIELDS; JOULE EFFECTS; LAMINAR FREE CONVECTION; LINE HEAT SOURCE (LHS); LONG TIME; LONG TIME BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PARTICLE-IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); PLATINUM WIRES; PRESSURE CONDITIONS; SCALINGS; SPECTRAL TYPES; TEMPERATURE FIELDS; THIN WIRES; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME-STEPPING ALGORITHMS; TRANSIENT FREE CONVECTION; VELOCITY PRESSURES;

WIRE;

EID: 46249132653     PISSN: 0142727X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2008.02.012     Document Type: Article

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