Free convection heat and mass transfer of non-Newtonian power law fluids with yield stress from a vertical flat plate in saturated porous media

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 485-494

  Jumah, Rami Y ^a,b   Mujumdar, Arun S ^b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MASS TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROSITY; RHEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY; YIELD STRESS;

BUOYANCY RATIO; LEWIS NUMBER; NON NEWTONIAN POWER LAW FLUID; RHEOLOGICAL CONSTANT;

NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS;

HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW FLUID;

EID: 0034190435     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1933(00)00131-7     Document Type: Article

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