Natural convection flow in porous enclosures with heating and cooling on adjacent walls and divided by a triangular massive partition

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 476-491

  Varol, Yasin ^a   Oztop, Hakan F ^a   Pop, Ioan ^b  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Natural convection; Numerical solution; Porous enclosure divided by triangular portion

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; COOLING; HEATING; LAMINAR FLOW; LINEAR ALGEBRA; STEADY FLOW; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WALL FLOW;

DARCY MODEL; SOLID ADIABATIC BODY; SUCCESSIVE UNDER RELAXATION (SUR); TRIANGULAR MSSIVE PARTITION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

ASPECT RATIO; COOLING; HEATING; LAMINAR FLOW; LINEAR ALGEBRA; NATURAL CONVECTION; STEADY FLOW; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WALL FLOW;

EID: 39149141852     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2007.09.010     Document Type: Article

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