Transitions and chaos for free convection in a rotating porous layer

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1417-1435

  Vadasz, Peter ^a   Olek, Shmuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHAOS THEORY; GALERKIN METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POROUS MATERIALS;

DARCY'S EQUATION; LORENZ EQUATIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

CHAOS; CONVECTION; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0032102741     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(97)00265-2     Document Type: Article

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