Buoyant heat transport in fluids across tilted square cavities discretely heated at one side

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 797-808

  Corcione, Massimo ^a   Habib, Emanuele ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dimensionless correlations; Enclosure; Natural convection; Numerical analysis; Partial heating

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ENCLOSURES; ENERGY TRANSFER; LOCATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

COMPUTATIONAL CODES; DIMENSIONLESS CORRELATION; ENERGY TRANSFER EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION; PARTIAL HEATING; TILTED SQUARE CAVITIES;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 76849109299     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2009.11.012     Document Type: Article

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