The onset of convection in a shallow box occupied by a heterogeneous porous medium with constant flux boundaries

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 441-451

  Nield, D A ^a   Kuznetsov, A V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Horton Rogers Lapwood problem; Instability; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NATURAL CONVECTION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

CONSTANT FLUX BOUNDARIES; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIUM; HORTON-ROGERS-LAPWOOD PROBLEM; SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM; THERMAL HETEROGENEITY;

POROUS MATERIALS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NATURAL CONVECTION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; POROUS MATERIALS;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; INSTABILITY; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 33947236804     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-006-9035-x     Document Type: Article

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