Flow over and forced convection heat transfer around a semi-circular cylinder at incidence

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 55, Issue 19-20, 2012, Pages 5171-5184

  Pal Singh Bhinder, Amrit ^a   Sarkar, Sandip ^b   Dalal, Amaresh ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b TATA STEEL LTD   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Cylinder; Forced convection; Nusselt number; Vortex shedding

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; FORCED CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBER; NEW CORRELATIONS; SEPARATION ZONE; SHEAR LAYER; SINGULARITY POINT; STREAMLINE CURVATURE; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; STRUCTURE PROPERTY; VORTEX MOTION; WAKE DYNAMICS;

AIR; CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FLOW SEPARATION; FORCED CONVECTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STROUHAL NUMBER; VORTEX SHEDDING;

NUSSELT NUMBER;

EID: 84863502919     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.05.018     Document Type: Article

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