Natural convection in an inclined porous cavity with variable porosity and thermal dispersion effects

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-117

  Hsiao, Shih Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HEAT FLUX; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROSITY; PRANDTL NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; THERMAL EFFECTS; DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; KINEMATICS; POROUS MATERIALS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; VISCOSITY;

RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL DISPERSION EFFECTS; WALL EFFECTS; BULK PERMEABILITY; KINEMATIC VISCOSITY; POROUS CAVITY; THERMAL DISPERSION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; DISPERSION; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0031649303     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615539810198050     Document Type: Article

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