The fluid dynamics of an attic space

DOI10.1017/S0022112083001317zbMath0534.76090OpenAlexW1977613421MaRDI QIDQ3318405

Adrian Bejan, Dimos Poulikakos

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112083001317

zbMATH Keywords

finite difference methodBoussinesq approximationPrandtl numberstream functionscaling analysisGrashof numberincompressibleoscillatorytransient solutionBénard instabilityattic-shaped enclosurecold inclined upper wallnet heat transfer by conductionone-cell flowsudden cooling of upper wallsymmetry condition at vertical boundarythermal and viscous layerstwo-dimensional velocity and temperature fieldwarm horizontal bottom wall

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Free convection (76R10)

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Cites Work

• Natural convection in a shallow cavity with differentially heated end walls. Part 1. Asymptotic theory
• Convection in a porous cavity

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