Effects of Reynolds and Prandtl number on mixed convection in a ventilated cavity with a heat-generating solid circular block

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2056-2066

  Rahman, M M ^a,b   Parvin, S ^b   Rahim, N A ^a   Islam, M R ^a   Saidur, R ^a   Hasanuzzaman, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Heat transfer; Mixed convection; Solid circular block; Ventilated cavity

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DRAG FORCES; FLUID TEMPERATURES; GALERKIN; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; MIXED CONVECTIVE FLOW; NUMERICAL STUDIES; REYNOLDS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; THERMAL FIELD; VENTILATED CAVITIES; WEIGHTED RESIDUALS;

DRAG; HEAT TRANSFER; MIXED CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VENTILATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84855862124     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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