A numerical study of unsteady free convection from a sphere in a porous medium

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 893-903

  Yan, B ^a   Pop, I ^b   Ingham, D B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUXES; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; SPHERES; SURFACES;

DARCY FLOW; TEMPERATURE PATTERN;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; POROUS MEDIA-FLOW THROUGH;

EID: 0031106558     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0017-9310(96)00157-3     Document Type: Article

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