Airflow through beds of cereal grains

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 283-289

  De Ville, A ^a   Smith, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flow; Nonlinear; Perturbation analysis; Porous

Indexed keywords

AIR; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FUNCTIONS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POROUS MATERIALS; VELOCITY;

AIRFLOW; CEREAL GRAINS; DARCY LAW; WEAKLY NONLINEAR SOLUTION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GAS/SOLID; MATHEMATICAL-MODELLING; POROUS MEDIA-FLOW THROUGH; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0043096149     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0307-904x(95)00121-y     Document Type: Article

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