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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
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Original Articles

Performance of characteristic numerical boundary conditions for mixed convective flows past a heated square cylinder using a non-Boussinesq approach

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Pages 254-280 | Received 03 Mar 2019, Accepted 31 May 2019, Published online: 17 Jun 2019

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