Stability of free convection in a rotating porous layer distant from the axis of rotation

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 153-173

  Vadasz, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Free convection; Porous layer; Rotating flows

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FILTRATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEATING; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SPECIFIC HEAT; VECTORS;

CENTRIFUGAL BODY FORCE; CRITICAL CENTRIFUGAL RAYLEIGH NUMBER; CRITICAL WAVE NUMBER; GRAVITATIONAL BODY FORCE;

ROTATIONAL FLOW;

CONVECTION; FLOW STABILITY; POROUS MEDIA-FLOW THROUGH; ROTATING LAYER;

EID: 0030131267     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00178124     Document Type: Article

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