Uniform lateral mass flux on natural-convection flow over a vertical cone embedded in a porous medium saturated with a non-Newtonian fluid

Journal of Porous Media

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-84

  Kumari, M ^a   Jayanthi, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT TRANSFER; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL DIFFUSION; VISCOSITY;

ERGUN NUMBERS; MASS FLUX PARAMETERS; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYERS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 14744271387     PISSN: 1091028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/JPorMedia.v8.i1.70     Document Type: Article

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