The onset of convection in a porous medium occupying an enclosure of variable width or height

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 129, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1714-1718

  Nield, D A ^a   Kuznetsov, A V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Horton Rogers Lapwood problem; Instability; Natural convection; Saturated porous medium

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS;

DESTABILIZING EFFECT; HORTON-ROGERS-LAPWOOD PROBLEM; STABILIZING EFFECT;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; PIPE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 38849194752     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2768097     Document Type: Article

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