Effect of variable viscosity on non-Darcy free or mixed convection flow on a vertical surface in a non-Newtonian fluid saturated porous medium

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1643-1659

  Jayanthi, S ^a   Kumari, M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Free and mixed convection flows; Non Darcy; Non Newtonian; Porous medium; Variable viscosity; Vertical surface

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; LINEAR SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

MIXED CONVECTION FLOWS; POROUS MEDIUM; VARIABLE VISCOSITY; VERTICAL SURFACES;

NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 33947671938     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.08.072     Document Type: Article

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