Natural convection between a circular enclosure and an elliptic cylinder using Control Volume based Finite Element Method

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1035-1044

  Ghasemi, E ^a   Soleimani, Soheil ^b   Bararnia, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b BABOL NOSHIRVANI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Circular enclosure; CVFEM; Elliptic cylinder; Natural convection; Vorticity stream function formulation

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; CONTROL VOLUME BASED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; CVFEM; DIFFERENT SIZES; ELLIPTIC CYLINDER; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; INCLINATION ANGLES; INNER CYLINDER; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; VORTICITY STREAM FUNCTION FORMULATION; VORTICITY-STREAM FUNCTION;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NATURAL CONVECTION;

ENCLOSURES;

EID: 84865384267     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2012.06.016     Document Type: Article

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