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What exactly is the difference between advection and convection?
After reading Wikipedia articles on advection and convection, I still cannot determine whether there is a consensus on a difference between these two terms.
Sometimes, the term convection seems to ...
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What exactly is the difference between radiation and convection?
Okay, so everywhere I've read, I hear the main difference is the requirement of a medium. But for example, if you take the case of heat 'radiating' from a red-hot iron, isn't that actually convection ...
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Convective and Diffusive terms in Navier Stokes Equations
My question has 2 parts:
I just followed the derivation of Navier Stokes (for Control Volume CFD analysis) and was able to understand most parts. However, the book I use (by Versteeg) does not ...
