Forced-convection heat transfer from tandem square cylinders in cross flow at low Reynolds numbers

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 733-751

  Sohankar, A ^a,b   Etminan, A ^a  

^a YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fluid flow; Heat transfer; Numerical study; Square cylinder; Tandem; Vortex shedding

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; CROSS FLOWS; FINITE VOLUME CODE; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLUID FLOW; GLOBAL QUANTITIES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; NUMERICAL STUDIES; NUMERICAL STUDY; RECIRCULATION; SIMPLEC ALGORITHM; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SQUARE CYLINDER; SQUARE CYLINDERS; STAGGERED GRID; TANDEM; TANDEM ARRANGEMENT;

DRAG; DRAG COEFFICIENT; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; LAMINAR FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX SHEDDING;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES);

EID: 67649967885     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1909     Document Type: Article

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