Natural convection in porous media-dual reciprocity boundary element method solution of the Darcy model

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 279-312

  Šarler, Božidar ^a   Gobin, Dominique ^b   Goyeau, Benoît ^b   Perko, Janez ^a   Power, Henry ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c WESSEX INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Darcy porous media; Dual reciprocity boundary element method; Natural convection; Primitive variables; Thin plate splines

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; POROUS MATERIALS;

DUAL RECIPROCITY BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD (DRBEM); LAPLACE EQUATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DARCY LAW; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0034031524     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(20000530)33:2<279::AID-FLD18>3.3.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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