Natural convection in a porous cavity with spatial sidewall temperature variation

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 555-566

  Saeid, Nawaf H ^a   Mohamad, A A ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convection; Finite volume methods; Porous materials

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CYLINDRICAL HEATER; POROUS CAVITY; RALEIGH NUMBER; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 23444442037     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530510601459     Document Type: Article

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