The Convective Boundary-Layer Flow on a Reacting Surface in a Porous Medium

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 285-298

  Mahmood, T ^a,b   Merkin, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b THE ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY OF BAHAWALPUR   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Boundary layer flow; Convective flow; Darcy flow; Heat and mass transport; Surface reactions

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; HEAT CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; REACTION KINETICS; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DARCY FLOW; MASS TRANSPORT; REACTING SURFACE;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0032173261     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006576203847     Document Type: Article

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