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Numerical modeling of nonsteady natural convection in prismatic cavities

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A finite-difference method is described for the calculation of the two-dimensional nonsteady natural convection in arbitrary areas. This method is used to investigate convection in a cavity of trapezoidal cross section.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 565–572, April, 1989.

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Karyakin, Y.E. Numerical modeling of nonsteady natural convection in prismatic cavities. Journal of Engineering Physics 56, 397–403 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00870591

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