Effects of nonuniformly heated wall(S) on a natural-convection flow in a square cavity filled with a porous medium

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 959-978

  Basak, Tanmay ^a   Roy, S ^a   Takhar, H S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TREATMENT; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

POROUS MATRIX; POWER LAW; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 34248592514     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790601128600     Document Type: Article

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