Natural convection heat transfer between inner sphere and outer vertically eccentric cylinder

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 53, Issue 23-24, 2010, Pages 5147-5155

  Chen, Wen Ruey ^a  

^a FAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Natural convection; The composite annulus gap

Indexed keywords

ECCENTRIC CYLINDERS; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; GEOMETRIC RATIOS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; ISOTHERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NATURAL CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SPHERICAL POLAR COORDINATES; STREAMFUNCTIONS; TEMPERATURE FIELD; THE COMPOSITE ANNULUS GAP; VERTICAL CYLINDERS;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); GEOMETRY; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER;

SPHERES;

EID: 77956062077     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.07.048     Document Type: Article

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