Enhancing forced convection by inserting porous substrate in the core of a parallel-plate channel

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 502-517

  Hamdan, M O ^a   Al Nimr, M A ^a   Alkam, M K ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; PRANDTL NUMBER; SUBSTRATES; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VELOCITY;

DARCY NUMBER; DARCY-BRINKMAN-FORCHHEIMER MODEL; PARALLEL PLATE CHANNEL;

FORCED CONVECTION;

EID: 0033681420     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530010338187     Document Type: Article

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