Large-eddy simulation of turbulent natural convection in vertical parallel-plate channels

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 259-287

  Lau, G E ^a   Yeoh, G H ^a,b   Timchenko, V ^a   Reizes, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; FIELD PROFILE; FLOW DEVELOPMENT; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODOLOGIES; PARALLEL-PLATE CHANNELS; PREDICTOR CORRECTOR; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; SMAGORINSKY MODEL; SUB-GRID SCALE MODELS; TIME-AVERAGED; TURBULENT NATURAL CONVECTION; TURBULENT REGIME; TWO STAGE; VREMAN MODEL; WALL BEHAVIOR; WALL TEMPERATURES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79956149718     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790.2011.560815     Document Type: Article

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