A physical picture of the mechanism of turbulent heat transfer from the wall

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 21-22, 2009, Pages 4873-4882

  Le, Phuong M ^a   Papavassiliou, Dimitrios V ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lagrangian methods; Turbulent Prandtl number; Turbulent transport

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; LAGRANGIAN METHODS; PHYSICAL PICTURES; PLANE COUETTE FLOW; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TRANSPORT OF HEAT; TURBULENT CHANNEL FLOWS; TURBULENT HEAT TRANSFER; TURBULENT PRANDTL NUMBER; TURBULENT TRANSPORT; WALL TURBULENCE;

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; FLOW SIMULATION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; TURBULENT FLOW;

PRANDTL NUMBER;

EID: 68749105838     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.05.024     Document Type: Article

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