Natural convection of power law fluids in inclined cavities

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue , 2012, Pages 8-17

  Khezzar, Lyes ^a   Siginer, Dennis ^a,b   Vinogradov, Igor ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cavity; Convective heat transfer; Non Newtonian; Numerical heat transfer; Power law fluids

Indexed keywords

CAVITY; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; NON-NEWTONIAN; NUMERICAL HEAT TRANSFER; POWER LAW FLUID;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLUIDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 84855787350     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2011.10.020     Document Type: Article

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