Variable viscosity and thermal conductivity effects on combined heat and mass transfer in mixed convection over a UHF/UMF wedge in porous media: The entire regime

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 145, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 667-682

  Hassanien, I A ^a   Essawy, A H ^b   Moursy, N M ^b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b Minia University ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS TRANSFER; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VISCOSITY;

UNIFORM MASS FLUX (UMF);

MIXED CONVECTION;

EID: 0042522480     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(03)00181-4     Document Type: Article

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