Natural convection in a non-Darcy anisotropic porous cavity with a finite heat source at the bottom wall

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1279-1293

  Krishna, D Jaya ^a   Basak, Tanmay ^a   Das, Sarit K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Anisotropic porous medium; Finite heat source; Generalized non Darcy approach; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC POROUS MEDIUM; ANISOTROPIC PROPERTIES; BOTTOM SURFACES; BOTTOM WALLS; DARCY REGIMES; DARCY-RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; FINITE HEAT SOURCE; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FLOW PHYSICS; GENERALIZED NON-DARCY APPROACH; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES; PERMEABILITY RATIOS; POROUS CAVITIES; POROUS MEDIUMS; PRINCIPAL AXES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 64949140959     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2008.11.022     Document Type: Article

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