The onset of convection in a suspension of gyrotactic microorganisms in superimposed fluid and porous layers: Effect of vertical throughflow

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-176

  Avramenko, A A ^a   Kuznetsov, A V ^b  

^a Department of Modeling of Heat Transfer Processes in Energy and Heat Engineering Facilities   (Ukraine)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioconvection; Motile microorganisms; Superimposed fluid and porous layers; Vertical throughflow

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GALERKIN METHODS; MICROORGANISMS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); SYSTEM STABILITY;

BIOCONVECTION; GYROTACTIC MICROORGANISMS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SUPERIMPOSED FLUID; VERTICAL THROUGHFLOW;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GALERKIN METHODS; HEAT CONVECTION; MICROORGANISMS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONVECTION; EIGENVALUE; GALERKIN METHOD; INSTABILITY; MICROORGANISM; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THROUGHFLOW;

EID: 33751045415     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-005-6086-3     Document Type: Article

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