Second-law analysis of thermally developing forced convection in a porous medium

Heat Transfer Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 437-447

  Hooman, K ^a  

^a PERSIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOSITY;

ENTROPY GENERATION; VISCOUS DISSIPATION;

FORCED CONVECTION;

EID: 29144527180     PISSN: 10642285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/HeatTransRes.v36.i6.10     Document Type: Article

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