Natural convection in porous media-filled triangular enclosure with a conducting thin fin on the hot vertical wall

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

Volumn 222, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1735-1743

  Varol, Y ^a,c   Oztop, H F ^a   Pop, I ^b  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugates heat transfer; Porous media; Thin fin; Triangular enclosure

Indexed keywords

ENCLOSURES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FLOW OF FLUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CONVECTION IN POROUS MEDIAS; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; FLUID-SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HOT VERTICAL WALLS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIO; THIN FIN; TRIANGULAR ENCLOSURE;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 54249113258     PISSN: 09544062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544062JMES1031     Document Type: Article

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