Natural convection and fluid flow in inclined enclosure with a corner heater

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 340-350

  Varol, Yasin ^a   Oztop, Hakan F ^a   Koca, Ahmet ^a   Ozgen, Filiz ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Corner heaters; Enclosure; Inclined; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; HEAT CONVECTION; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRANDTL NUMBER;

CONSISTENT PERFORMANCES; CORNER HEATERS; ENERGY EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCES; FLUID FLOWS; INCLINATION ANGLES; INCLINED; INCLINED ENCLOSURES; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; SQUARE ENCLOSURES; STREAM FUNCTIONS;

ENCLOSURES;

EID: 55549144733     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.02.033     Document Type: Article

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