Unsteady free convection flow over a vertical flat plate immersed in a porous medium

Fluid Dynamics Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 153-160

  Al Nimr, M A ^a   Masoud, S ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NON-DARCY FLOW;

UNSTEADY FLOW;

CONVECTION; PLATE; POROUS MEDIUM; UNSTEADY FLOW;

CONVECTION; PLATES; POROUS MEDIA; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 0032167721     PISSN: 01695983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5983(97)00059-2     Document Type: Article

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