Numerical study of buoyancy-driven transitional flow in a square cavity with partially heated and cooled vertical walls

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 744-758

  Navamani, Rangaswamy ^a   Murugan, Nadarajan ^a  

^a Coimbatore Institute of Technology   (India)

Author keywords

Convection; Laminar flow; Time series analysis; Vortices

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING DIRECTION IMPLICIT; BIFURCATION DIAGRAM; BOTTOM WALL; BUOYANCY-DRIVEN CONVECTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; COUPLED EQUATION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ENERGY-EFFICIENT DESIGN; FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; FORTRAN; GOVERNING EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HEATED WALL; NATURAL CONVECTIVE FLOW; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OSCILLATORY MOTION; SEALED CAVITIES; SQUARE CAVITY; STREAMFUNCTIONS; TRANSITIONAL FLOW; VERTICAL WALL; VORTICES;

ASPECT RATIO; BUOYANCY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HEAT CONVECTION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LAMINAR FLOW; PRANDTL NUMBER; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957594044     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615531011065548     Document Type: Article

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