Free convection along a vertical heated plate in a porous medium with anisotropic permeability

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-63

  Vasseur, P ^a   Degan, G ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANISOTROPY; ASPECT RATIO; FUNCTIONS; GROUNDWATER; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; KINEMATICS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TENSORS; VISCOSITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; VECTORS;

FLOW PERMEABILITY; HEATED PLATES; NUMERICAL DOMAINS; SEEPAGE VELOCITY; DARCY'S LAW; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; CONVECTION; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0031699826     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615539810197925     Document Type: Article

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