Thermosolutal convection within a vertical porous enclosure in the case of a buoyancy ratio balancing the separation parameter

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1129-1137

  Er Raki, M ^a   Hasnaoui, M ^a   Amahmid, A ^a   El Ganaoui, M ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

Analytical and numerical solution; Porous medium; Soret effect; Thermosolutal convection

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL DIFFUSION;

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL SOLUTION; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BOUNDARY LAYER THICKNESS; BUOYANCY RATIOS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; MASS FLUXES; PARALLEL FLOWS; POROUS ENCLOSURES; POROUS MEDIUM; SEPARATION COEFFICIENTS; SEPARATION PARAMETERS; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; SORET EFFECT; THERMOSOLUTAL CONVECTION; UNIFORM FLUXES; VERTICAL POROUS LAYERS; VERTICAL WALLS; ZERO CONCENTRATIONS;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 62749186151     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2008.08.012     Document Type: Article

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