Free convection in porous media filled right-angle triangular enclosures

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1190-1197

  Varol, Yasin ^a   Oztop, Hakan F ^b   Varol, Asaf ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Natural convection; Porous medium; Triangular enclosure

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ASPECT RATIO; CONFINED FLOW; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; SUCCESSIVE UNDER RELAXATION METHOD; TRIANGULAR ENCLOSURE;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

ALGEBRA; ASPECT RATIO; CONFINED FLOW; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 33750814886     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2006.08.008     Document Type: Article

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