Natural convection in a rectangular enclosure with sinusoidal temperature distributions on both side walls

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 507-524

  Deng, Qi Hong ^a   Chang, Juan Juan ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ASPECT RATIO; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ENCLOSURES; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOSTATS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WALL FLOW;

AMPLITUDE RATIOS; CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; FINITE-VOLUME METHOD; FLUID FLOWING; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HORIZONTAL WALLS; LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION; PHASE DEVIATIONS; PRIMITIVE VARIABLES; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURES; SIDE WALLS; SIMPLE ALGORITHMS; TEMPERATURE PROFILING;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 48849088140     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630802186080     Document Type: Article

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