Thermoconvective flow in a saturated, isotropic, homogeneous porous medium using Brinkman's model: Numerical study

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 8, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 559-589

  Beg O A ^a   Takhar, H S ^b   Soundalgekar, V M ^c   Prasad, V ^d  

^a ARUP   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Brindavan Society   (India)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VISCOSITY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DRAG; FRICTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HEURISTIC METHODS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; POROSITY; PRANDTL NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BRINKMAN'S MODEL; RUNGE-KUTTA-MERSON SCHEME; THERMOCONVECTIVE FLOW; VISCOUS DISSIPATION; DARCY NUMBER (DA); ECKERT NUMBER (EC); PACKED-BED CHROMATOGRAPHY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIO;

HEAT CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS;

CONVECTION; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0031641751     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615539810220298     Document Type: Article

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