Energy flux vectors as a new tool for convection visualization

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 240-249

  Hooman, Kamel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Convection; Flow; Visual programming

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; CONVECTION FLOW; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ENERGY EQUATION; ENERGY FLUXES; EXACT MATCH; HIGHER RESOLUTION; NEW TOOLS; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPACES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY; VISUAL PROGRAMMING; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77951249039     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615531011016984     Document Type: Article

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