Natural convection heat transfer in a porous rhombic annulus

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 101-124

  Moukalled, F ^a   Darwish, M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRIC CYLINDERS; CONDUCTION HEAT TRANSFER; CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; DARCY NUMBER; FLOW STRENGTH; LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION; NATURAL CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; POROUS ENCLOSURE; RALEIGH NUMBER; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

ENCLOSURES; ENTHALPY; HEAT CONDUCTION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 77955125490     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2010.497322     Document Type: Article

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