Analysis of the flow and heat transfer characteristics for assisting incompressible laminar flow past an open cavity

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 901-907

  Stiriba, Youssef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulation; Mixed convection; Open cavity; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; LAMINAR FLOW; MIXED CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; STREAM FLOW;

BUOYANCY INDUCED FLOW; CONVECTION EFFECTS; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; MIXED CONVECTIVE; OPEN CAVITY; RICHARDSON NUMBER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 56349125568     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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