Instability of a vertical chemical front: Effect of viscosity and density varying with concentration

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Swernath, Subramanian ^a   Pushpavanam, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Computational fluid dynamics; Finite difference methods; Flow instability; Flow through porous media; Runge Kutta methods

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; VISCOSITY; VORTICITY;

CHEMOHYDRODYNAMICS; FLOW INSTABILITY; RUNGE-KUTTA FOURTH-ORDER SCHEME;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

CHEMICALS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; VISCOSITY; VORTICITY;

EID: 38949096344     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2829081     Document Type: Article

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