Prandtl number scaling of unsteady natural convection boundary layers for Pr>1 fluids under isothermal heating

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Lin, Wenxian ^a,b   Armfield, S W ^c   Patterson, J C ^a   Lei, Chengwang ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE LIMIT; BOUNDARY LAYER DEVELOPMENT; FLOW DEVELOPMENT; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; ISOTHERMAL HEATING; ISOTHERMAL NEWTONIAN FLUID; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SCALING ANALYSIS; SCALINGS; START-UP STAGE; STEADY STATE; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; TRANSIENT FLOW BEHAVIOR; UNSTEADY NATURAL CONVECTION; VERTICAL PLATE; VISCOUS BOUNDARY LAYERS;

NATURAL CONVECTION; PRANDTL NUMBER;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 67650105315     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.066313     Document Type: Article

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