Effects of geological inhomogeneity on high rayleigh number steady state heat and mass transfer in fluid-saturated porous media heated from below

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 415-431

  Zhao, Chongbin ^a   Miihlhaus, H B ^a   Hobbs, B E ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; MASS TRANSFER; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

LEWIS NUMBER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 0032017703     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407789808913947     Document Type: Article

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