Natural convection of micropolar fluid in an enclosure with boundary element method

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 485-492

  Zadravec, Matej ^a   Hriberšek, Matjaž ^a   Škerget, Leopold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Boundary element method (BEM); Micropolar fluid; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CHANNEL FLOW; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VORTICITY;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD (BEM); FLOW KINETICS; FLUID FLOWS; FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTIONS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSPORTS; HEATED WALLS; INTEGRAL FORMS; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MICROPOLAR FLUID; MICROROTATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; SQUARE CAVITIES; TEST CASE; VORTICITY FORMULATIONS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 59649109404     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enganabound.2008.08.013     Document Type: Article

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