Comments on a paradox of viscous dissipation and its relation to the Oberbeck-Boussinesq approach

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 51, Issue 25-26, 2008, Pages 6312-6316

  Barletta, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buoyant flows; Natural convection; Oberbeck Boussinesq approximation; Porous media; Viscous dissipation

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; ENERGY BALANCE; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORCED CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS;

BALANCE EQUATIONS; BOUSSINESQ; BUOYANT FLOWS; CLEAR FLUIDS; LOCAL ENERGIES; OBERBECK-BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; POROUS MEDIA; SATURATED POROUS MEDIAS; VISCOUS DISSIPATION; VISCOUS DISSIPATIONS;

VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 55549122646     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2007.10.044     Document Type: Article

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