Numerical investigation of natural convection in a rectangular enclosure due to partial heating and cooling at vertical walls

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2403-2414

  Alam, Pravez ^a   Kumar, Ashok ^b   Kapoor, S ^b   Ansari, S R ^a  

^a H N B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Natural convection; Partial heating

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ENCLOSURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER;

ASPECT-RATIO; AVERAGE HEAT TRANSFERS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PARTIAL COOLING; PARTIAL-HEATING; RAYLEIGH; RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURES; VERTICAL WALL;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 84855240717     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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