Double diffusive natural convection in a partially heated enclosure with Soret and Dufour effects

International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 902-910

  Nithyadevi, N ^a   Yang, Ruey Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Control volume method; Double diffusive natural convection; Soret and Dufour effects; Square enclosure

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY RATIO; CASE II; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; CONTROL VOLUME METHOD; CONTROL VOLUME METHODS; DENSITY INVERSION; DENSITY MAXIMA; DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE NATURAL CONVECTION; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GOVERNING PARAMETERS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HEATED ENCLOSURES; HORIZONTAL WALLS; QUICK SCHEME; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SCHMIDT NUMBERS; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SORET AND DUFOUR EFFECTS; SQUARE ENCLOSURE; VERTICAL WALL; WORKING FLUID;

ENCLOSURES; FLOW PATTERNS; MASS TRANSFER;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 70249149285     PISSN: 0142727X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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