Visualization of heat transport using dimensionless heatfunction for natural convection and conduction in an enclosure with thick solid ceiling

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2596-2608

  Mobedi, Moghtada ^a   Oztop, Hakan F ^b  

^a IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conjugate heat transfer; Dimensionless heatfunction; Heat transport; Heatline; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ENCLOSURES; HEAT CONDUCTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

COMPUTATIONAL DOMAIN; CONJUGATE CONDUCTION; CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER; CONVECTION AND CONDUCTION; CONVECTION PROBLEMS; DIMENSIONLESS HEATFUNCTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLUID INTERFACES; FLUID REGIONS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSPORT; HEATLINE; HORIZONTAL WALLS; NATURAL CONVECTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; VERTICAL WALLS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 53049095657     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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