Influence of variable heat flux on natural convection along a corrugated wall in porous media

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1454-1463

  Shalini, ^a,b   Rathish Kumar, B V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

Author keywords

Corrugated surface; Keller Box method; Natural convection; Non similarity technique; Variable heat flux

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYER EQUATIONS; CORRUGATED SURFACE; CORRUGATED WALL; KELLER BOX METHOD; VARIABLE HEAT FLUX;

POROUS MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 34249661127     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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