Visualization of heat transport due to natural convection for hot materials confined within two entrapped porous triangular cavities via heatline concept

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 53, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 2100-2112

  Basak, Tanmay ^a   Roy, S ^a   Ramakrishna, D ^a   Pop, I ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Heat recovery; Heatlines; Inverted triangular cavity; Isotherms; Natural convection; Penalty finite element method; Porous medium; Streamlines

Indexed keywords

HEAT RECOVERY; HEATLINES; INVERTED TRIANGULAR CAVITY; PENALTY FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; POROUS MEDIUM; TRIANGULAR CAVITIES;

HEAT EXCHANGERS; ISOTHERMS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; PRANDTL NUMBER; SPECIFIC HEAT; WALL FLOW; WASTE HEAT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77049125330     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.12.045     Document Type: Article

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