Natural convection and flow simulation in differentially heated isosceles triangular enclosures filled with porous medium

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3328-3340

  Basak, Tanmay ^a   Roy, S ^a   Krishna Babu, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Critical Rayleigh number; Natural convection; Penalty finite element method; Porous matrix; Sinusoidal heating; Triangular enclosure

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS;

CRITICAL RAYLEIGH NUMBER; PENALTY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POROUS MATRIX; SINUSOIDAL HEATING; TRIANGULAR ENCLOSURE;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 44749092784     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.03.038     Document Type: Article

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