Natural convection heat transfer from a long heated vertical cylinder to an adjacent air gap of concentric and eccentric conditions

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-60

  Hosseini, R ^a   Rezania, A ^b   Alipour, M ^a   Rosendahl, L A ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-GAPS; DIAMETER RATIO; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; ECCENTRIC RATIO; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; HEATED CYLINDERS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VERTICAL CYLINDERS;

NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES);

EID: 84856079167     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-011-0840-6     Document Type: Article

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