Convective heat transfer in hemispherical cavities with planar inner surfaces

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 117, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 713-724

  Saber, Hamed H ^a   Laouadi, Abdelaziz ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY TEMPERATURE; BOUNDING SURFACES; CONCENTRIC SPHERES; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; COOLING LOAD; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; HEMISPHERICAL CAVITIES; HOT WEATHER; IN-BUILDINGS; INNER SURFACES; LIMITED INFORMATION; MODEL PREDICTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; UNIFORM TEMPERATURE;

AIR CONDITIONING; DAYLIGHTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUSSELT NUMBER; WINDOWS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 84856629609     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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