Sudden or smooth transitions in porous media natural convection

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1096-1106

  Vadasz, Johnathan J ^a   Roy Aikins, Joseph E A ^a   Vadasz, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Northern Arizona University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Natural convection; Porous media; Weak turbulence

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GALERKIN METHODS; HEATING; POROUS MATERIALS; TURBULENCE;

DARCY REGIMES; ENERGY EQUATIONS; NON-DARCY EFFECTS; SYSTEM FORMULATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROSITY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 13644253120     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2004.09.039     Document Type: Article

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