Drag and flow reversal in mixed convection past a heated sphere

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Kotouč, Miroslav ^a   Bouchet, Gilles ^a   Dušek, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXED CONVECTION; PRANDTL NUMBER; SPHERES;

AXISYMMETRIC SIMULATION; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; FLOW REVERSALS; HEATED SPHERES; OPPOSING FLOW; RECIRCULATIONS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SPHERE DIAMETER;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 66849124864     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3139304     Document Type: Article

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