On the effect of anisotropy on the stability of convection in rotating porous media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 413-422

  Govender, Saneshan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Centrifugal Rayleigh number; Mechanical anisotropy; Rotation; Thermal anisotropy

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CENTRIFUGAL RAYLEIGH NUMBER; MECHANICAL ANISOTROPY; THERMAL ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ANISOTROPY; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 33744907054     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-005-5479-7     Document Type: Article

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