Moderate Stefan number convection in rotating mushy layers: A new darcy equation formulation

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 127-137

  Govender, Saneshan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Free convection; Mushy layers; Rotating flows; Solidification; Taylor number

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EUTECTICS; HEAT CONVECTION; SOLIDIFICATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CORIOLIS EFFECT; STABILITY THEORY; STEFAN NUMBER; TAYLOR NUMBER;

POROUS MATERIALS;

CORIOLIS FORCE; DARCY LAW; EARTH ROTATION; MANTLE CONVECTION;

EID: 14844318578     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-004-0669-2     Document Type: Article

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