Natural convection in partially cooled and inclined porous rectangular enclosures

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-156

  Oztop, Hakan F ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Inclination angle; Natural convection heat transfer; Porous medium

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASPECT RATIO; COOLING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS;

INCLINATION ANGLE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURES;

ENCLOSURES;

EID: 33751180100     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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