Natural convection flows in porous trapezoidal enclosures with various inclination angles

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 19-20, 2009, Pages 4612-4623

  Basak, Tanmay ^a   Roy, S ^a   Singh, Amit ^a   Balakrishnan, A R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Natural convection; Penalty finite element method; Porous medium; Trapezoidal cavity; Uniform and non uniform heating; Various angles

Indexed keywords

PENALTY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; TRAPEZOIDAL CAVITY; UNIFORM AND NON-UNIFORM HEATING; VARIOUS ANGLES;

ENCLOSURES; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEATING; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; SPECIFIC HEAT; TRANSFER CASES (VEHICLES);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 67650035284     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.01.050     Document Type: Article

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