Numerical study of laminar natural convection in a side-heated trapezoidal cavity at various inclined heated sidewalls

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 362-373

  Lasfer, Khalil ^a   Bouzaiane, Mounir ^a   Lili, Taieb ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER;

AIR FLOW; GRID SYSTEMS; INCLINATION ANGLES; LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION; NON-ORTHOGONAL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TRAPEZOIDAL CAVITY;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 77649252267     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630903373165     Document Type: Article

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