Control of buoyancy-induced temperature and flow fields with an embedded adiabatic thin plate in porous triangular cavities

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 558-566

  Varol, Yasin ^a   Oztop, Hakan F ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adiabatic thin plate; Natural convection; Porous media; Triangular cavity

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FLOW FIELDS; HEAT CONVECTION; LOCATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMOANALYSIS;

ADIABATIC THIN PLATE; DARCY MODELS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE METHODS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HORIZONTAL AXES; INCLINED WALLS; INDUCED TEMPERATURES; PLATE LOCATIONS; POROUS MEDIA; RAYLEIGH NUMBER.; SATURATED POROUS MEDIUMS; THIN PLATES; TRIANGULAR CAVITIES; TRIANGULAR CAVITY; TRIANGULAR ENCLOSURES; VERTICAL WALLS;

ENCLOSURES;

EID: 55549144336     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.03.018     Document Type: Article

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