Vortex instability of MHD natural convection flow over a horizontal plate in a porous medium

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 333-339

  Jang, Jiin Yuh ^a   Hsu, Chung Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; HEAT CONVECTION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; RANGE FINDING; VORTEX FLOW;

HEAT TRANSFER RATES; HORIZONTAL PLATES; LINEAR STABILITY THEORIES; LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBERS; MAGNETIC EFFECTS; MAGNETIC PARAMETERS; NATURAL CONVECTION FLOWS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POROUS MEDIUMS; RADIATION PARAMETERS; SATURATED POROUS MEDIUMS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; VORTEX INSTABILITIES; VORTEX MODES;

RADIATION;

EID: 55949111365     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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