Free convection boundary-layer flow above a nearly horizontal surface in a porous medium with newtonian heating

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 665-672

  Lesnic, D ^a   Ingham, D B ^a   Pop, I ^b   Storr, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL DIFFUSION; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

BOUNDARY-LAYER EQUATIONS; KINEMATIC VISCOSITY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

EID: 4243163261     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-003-0435-y     Document Type: Article

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