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Buoyant Flows

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Physical and Computational Aspects of Convective Heat Transfer

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Buoyancy effects occur, in principle, in any variable-density flow in a gravitational field. Their importance increases with density gradient and may be characterized by the size of the Richardson number, the simplest form of which is

$$ {\text{Ri = }}\frac{{\Delta \rho }}{\rho }\frac{{gh}}{{{u^2}}}, $$
((9.1))

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  1. Douglas Aircraft Company, 3855 Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, California, 90846, USA

    Tuncer Cebeci

  2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, California, 90840, USA

    Tuncer Cebeci

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

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Cebeci, T., Bradshaw, P. (1988). Buoyant Flows. In: Physical and Computational Aspects of Convective Heat Transfer. Physical and Computational Aspects of Convective Heat Transfer. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3918-5_9

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