Effects of thermal boundary conditions on entropy generation during natural convection

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 372-402

  Basak, Tanmay ^a   Kaluri, Ram Satish ^a   Balakrishnan, A R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIS SETS; BEJAN NUMBER; BOTTOM WALL; ENTROPY GENERATION; FLUID IRREVERSIBILITY; GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; HIGH THERMAL; HIGHER-DEGREE; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SIDE WALLS; SQUARE CAVITY; TEMPERATURE UNIFORMITY; THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THERMAL MIXING; TOTAL ENTROPY; VELOCITY GRADIENTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NATURAL CONVECTION;

ENTROPY;

EID: 79952125261     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2011.549075     Document Type: Article

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