Effects of wall conduction on natural convection in a porous triangular enclosure

Acta Mechanica

Volumn 200, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 155-165

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

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ENCLOSURES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CONJUGATE NATURAL CONVECTION; CONVECTION AND CONDUCTION; FINITE CONDUCTIVITY; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HORIZONTAL WALLS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIO; TRIANGULAR ENCLOSURE; WALL CONDUCTION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 54249131658     PISSN: 00015970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00707-008-0029-3     Document Type: Article

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