Onset of bouyancy-driven convection in superposed reacting fluid and porous layers

Journal of Engineering Mathematics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-47

  McKay, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collocation method; Darcy's law; Linear stability; Zero order exothermic reaction

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

COLLOCATION METHOD; DARCY LAW; FLUID POROUS LAYER DEPTH RATIO; FRANK-KAMENETSKII NUMBER; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; POROUS LAYER; WAVENUMBER; ZERO ORDER EXOTHERMIC REACTION;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

CONVECTION; POROUS MEDIUM; STABILITY;

CONVECTION; FLUID FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031597126     PISSN: 00220833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1004238905710     Document Type: Article

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