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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
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Numerical Investigation of Natural Convection in a Partitioned Rectangular Enclosure

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Pages 975-997 | Received 29 Jul 2005, Accepted 15 Feb 2006, Published online: 24 Feb 2007

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