Natural convection flow simulation for various angles in a trapezoidal enclosure with linearly heated side wall(s)

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 19-20, 2009, Pages 4413-4425

  Basak, Tanmay ^a   Roy, S ^a   Singh, Amit ^a   Pandey, Bishun D ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Linearly heating; Natural convection; Penalty finite element method; Trapezoidal cavity

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WALL; FLOW INTENSITY; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HIGHER PRANDTL NUMBER; LINEARLY HEATED SIDE WALLS; LINEARLY HEATING; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER; MONOTONIC TREND; NATURAL CONVECTION FLOW; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PENALTY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PENALTY FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; SIDE WALLS; TILT ANGLE; TRAPEZOIDAL CAVITY; TRAPEZOIDAL ENCLOSURE; VERTICAL WALL;

ENCLOSURES; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW SIMULATION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEATING; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; SPECIFIC HEAT; WALL FLOW;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 67650081385     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.03.057     Document Type: Article

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