Effects of viscous dissipation on a power-law fluid over plate embedded in a porous medium

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 807-813

  EI Amin, M F ^a   EI Hakiem, M A ^a   Mansour, M A ^b  

^a ASWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Assiut University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Buoyancy induced flow; Non Darcy; Non Newtonian power law fluid; Porous medium; Viscous dissipation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BUOYANCY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEAT FLUX; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL DIFFUSION; THERMAL EXPANSION; VISCOSITY;

ECKERT NUMBER; FLUID POWER-LAW INDICES; STREAM FUNCTIONS;

NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS;

EID: 0346959868     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-003-0415-2     Document Type: Article

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