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Numerical analysis of natural convection in a thin-walled cylindrical vessel with hemispherical end-plates completely filled with liquid

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The results are given of calculations of convection in a thin-walled cylindrical vessel with hemispherical end-plates over the range of Rayleigh and Fourier numbers that correspond to the main regimes of unsteady laminar convection in the presence of a given heat flux.

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    Yu. V. Val'tsiferov & V. P. Dronov

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 204–203, September–October, 1984.

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Val'tsiferov, Y.V., Dronov, V.P. Numerical analysis of natural convection in a thin-walled cylindrical vessel with hemispherical end-plates completely filled with liquid. Fluid Dyn 19, 853–857 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01093564

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