Direct simulation of natural convection in square porous enclosure

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1579-1589

  Pourshaghaghy, A ^a   Hakkaki Fard, A ^a   Mahdavi Nejad, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulation; Natural convection; Porous media; Random particle distribution

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER;

OSCILLATORY SOLUTION; RANDOM PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION; SQUARE POROUS ENCLOSURE;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 33947269142     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2006.11.013     Document Type: Article

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