Dispersion of a buoyant plume in a turbulent pressure-driven channel flow

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 1827-1842

  Fabregat, Alexandre ^a   Pallarès, Jordi ^a   Cuesta, Ildefonso ^a   Grau, Francesc Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; DNS; Plane channel flow; Turbulent heat transfer

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; THERMOANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; WALL FLOW;

A PLANES; BUOYANCY FORCES; BUOYANT PLUMES; DNS; HEAT TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; HOT FLUIDS; LOSS OF SYMMETRIES; MIXED CONVECTION FLOWS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PLANE CHANNEL FLOW; TIME-AVERAGED; TURBULENT DISPERSIONS; TURBULENT HEAT TRANSFER; TURBULENT PRESSURES; VERTICAL MOVEMENTS; VERTICAL VELOCITY COMPONENTS;

BUOYANCY;

EID: 59049092808     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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