An Effective Equation Governing Convective Transport in Porous Media

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 635-641

  Georgians, J G ^a,b   Catton, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geophysical heat transfer; Natural convection; Porous media

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER - CONVECTION;

CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT; DISORDERED POROUS MEDIA; EFFECTIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION; POROUS MEDIA;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 0024065896     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3250539     Document Type: Article

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