Natural convection in a square cavity filled with a porous medium: Effects of various thermal boundary conditions

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 49, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 1430-1441

  Basak, Tanmay ^a   Roy, S ^a   Paul, T ^a   Pop, I ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Natural convection; Penalty finite element method; Porous medium; Square cavity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT CONDUCTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

PENALTY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW CORRELATIONS; SQUARE CAVITY;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT CONDUCTION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

EID: 33144483494     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2005.09.018     Document Type: Article

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