High-Rayleigh-number convection in a fluid-saturated porous layer

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 500, Issue , 2004, Pages 263-281

  Otero, Jesse ^a   Dontcheva, Lubomira A ^b   Johnston, Hans ^c   Worthing, Rodney A ^d   Kurganov, Alexander ^e   Petrova, Guergana ^f   Doering, Charles R ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Breasco LLC   (United States)

^e Tulane University   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYSTERESIS; NUSSELT NUMBER; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POROUS MATERIALS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

DYNAMICAL TRANSITIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; POROSITY; PRANDTL NUMBER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 1542317510     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112003007298     Document Type: Article

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