Mixed convection in a vertical porous channel

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-335

  Umavathi, J C ^a   Kumar, J P ^a   Chamkha, A J ^b   Pop, I ^c  

^a GULBARGA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT   (Kuwait)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Analytical and numerical solutions; Mixed convection; Non Darcy model; Porous medium; Vertical channel

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHANNEL FLOW; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUSSELT NUMBER; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOUS FLOW;

BRINKMAN NUMBER; DARCY DISSIPATIONS; DARCY MODELS; GRASHOF NUMBER; INERTIAL FORCES; ISOFLUX; ISOTHERMAL; POROUS CHANNEL;

POROUS MATERIALS;

MIXED CONVECTION; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 21444440889     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-005-0260-5     Document Type: Article

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