Mixed convection heat transfer from a cylinder in power-law fluids: Effect of aiding buoyancy

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 9735-9754

  Srinivas, Avadhani T ^a   Bharti, Ram P ^a,b   Chhabra, Rajendra P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b The University of Melbourne   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIDING BUOYANCY; BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; BUOYANCY EFFECT; BUOYANCY PARAMETERS; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; FINITE VOLUME; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; FLUID BEHAVIOR; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; HORIZONTAL CYLINDERS; INDUCED MOTIONS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; POWER LAW FLUID; POWER LAW INDEX; PRESSURE COEFFICIENTS; PRESSURE FORCE; PRESSURE PROFILES; REYNOLDS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR THICKENING; SHEAR THINNING; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS; SHEAR-THICKENING FLUIDS; THERMAL ENERGY EQUATION; VISCOUS FORCES;

BUOYANCY; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DRAG; DRAG COEFFICIENT; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; MIXED CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FLUIDS;

EID: 71649103140     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801892m     Document Type: Article

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