A new semi-implicit time stepping procedure for buoyancy driven flow in a fluid saturated porous medium

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 165, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 147-154

  Nithiarasu, Perumal ^a   Ravindran, Kanagaraj ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BUOYANCY DRIVEN POROUS MEDIA;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BUOYANCY; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED MEDIUM;

EID: 0032476850     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(98)00036-X     Document Type: Article

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