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Numerical investigation of free convection from an instantaneous heat source in viscous fluid

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A formulation is given, as well as results of the numerical solution, of the self-consistent problem of free convection from an instantaneous heat source in a viscous incompressible fluid.

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  1. Institute of Thermophysics and Electrophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR, Tallin

    F. B. Kaplanskii & A. M. Épshtein

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  1. F. B. Kaplanskii
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 700–704, October, 1977.

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Kaplanskii, F.B., Épshtein, A.M. Numerical investigation of free convection from an instantaneous heat source in viscous fluid. Journal of Engineering Physics 33, 1218–1221 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00859015

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