Laminar natural convection of power-law fluids in a square enclosure with differentially heated side walls subjected to constant temperatures

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 166, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 1049-1063

  Turan, Osman ^a,b   Sachdeva, Anuj ^a   Chakraborty, Nilanjan ^a   Poole, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Finite volume; Heat transfer; Natural convection; Power law model

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; CONSTANT WALL TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT; FINITE-VOLUME; LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION; MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; NEW CORRELATIONS; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NEWTONIANS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; POWER LAW FLUID; POWER LAW INDEX; POWER LAW MODEL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SHEAR THICKENING; SIDE WALLS; SQUARE ENCLOSURES; STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS; THERMAL CONDUCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCLOSURES; FLUIDS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); NATURAL CONVECTION; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 79960600295     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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