Mixed convection effect on melting from a vertical plate in a porous medium

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 245-254

  Gorla, Rama Subba Reddy ^a   Mansour, M A ^b   Hassanien, I A ^b   Bakier, A Y ^b  

^a Cleveland State University   (United States)

^b Assiut University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Mixed convection; Porous media

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXED CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; PHASE INTERFACES; POROUS MATERIALS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

BOUNDARY LAYER APPROXIMATION;

MELTING;

MELTING;

EID: 0033385946     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006566924390     Document Type: Article

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