Stationary transverse diffusion in a horizontal porous medium boundary-layer flow with concentration-dependent fluid density and viscosity

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 341-355

  Thiele, Michael ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary layer flow; Density and viscosity variability; Mixed convection; Molecular diffusion; Nonsimilarity solutions; Series truncation method

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXED CONVECTION; MIXING; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOSITY;

BOUSSINESQ ASSUMPTION; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; SERIES TRUNCATION METHOD;

DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DENSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0032851292     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006552715711     Document Type: Article

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