Numerical solution of the three-dimensional fluid flow in a rotating heterogeneous porous channel

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 411-429

  Havstad, Mark A ^a   Vadasz, Peter ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Coriolis acceleration; Heterogeneous porous media; Rotating flow; Secondary circulation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHANNEL FLOW; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CORIOLIS ACCELERATION; EKMAN NUMBER; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS CHANNEL; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; TAYLOR-PROUDMAN THEOREM;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

CORIOLIS FORCE; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; POROUS MEDIUM; ROTATING FLOW;

EID: 0033197810     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(19990930)31:2<411::AID-FLD880>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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