Natural convection heat and mass transfer of non-Newtonian power law fluids with yield stress in porous media from a vertical plate with variable wall heat and mass fluxes

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1156-1164

  Cheng, Ching Yang ^a  

^a SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cubic spline collocation method; Natural convection; Non Newtonian fluid; Porous medium

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NUSSELT NUMBER;

CUBIC SPLINE COLLOCATION METHOD; NON-NEWTONIAN POWER LAW FLUIDS; SHERWOOD NUMBER; VERTICAL PLATE;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

HEAT FLUX; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NUSSELT NUMBER;

EID: 33749265340     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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