Flows through horizontal channels of porous materials

International Journal of Energy Research

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 875-889

  Al Hadhrami, A K ^a   Elliott, L ^a   Ingham, D B ^a   Wen, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Average pressure correction; Barrier; Brinkman equation; Control volume method; Porous media

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; SAND;

CONTROL VOLUME METHOD (CVM);

CHANNEL FLOW;

BARRIER; BRINKMAN EQUATION; FLUID FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SAND;

EID: 0042926622     PISSN: 0363907X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/er.923     Document Type: Article

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