Numerical study of natural convection heat transfer with variable viscosity and thermal radiation from a cone and wedge in porous media

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 64-75

  Al Harbi, Saleh M ^a  

^a Chemistry Dept   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Finite difference; Free convection; Non similarity solutions; Porous media

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT FLUX; HEAT RADIATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOSITY;

FINITE DIFFERENCE; FREE CONVECTIONS; NON-SIMILARITY SOLUTIONS; TABULATION;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 26844465550     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2004.10.093     Document Type: Article

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