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Synonym: Natural Thermal Convection = Free Thermal Convection

One of the Heat Transfer mechanisms originating from Natural Fluid Convection

See also

Physics / Thermodynamics / Heat Transfer / Thermal Convection

[ Forced Thermal Convection ]

References

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“Correlating Equations for Laminar and Turbulent Free

Convection from a Vertical Plate,”

Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer

, vol. 18, p. 1323, 1975.

Fujii, T., and H. Imura. “Natural Convection Heat Transfer from a Plate with Arbitrary

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Holman, J. P.

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