Analysis and classification of reaction-driven stationary convective patterns in a porous medium

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1674-1695

  Subramanian, S ^a   Balakotaiah, V ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IGNITION; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS; LEWIS NUMBER; LINEAR INSTABILITY THEORY; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; SHOOTING TECHNIQUE; SINGULARITY THEORY; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

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

EID: 0031171525     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869287     Document Type: Article

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