Natural convection in a diagonally divided square cavity filled with a porous medium

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1405-1415

  Varol, Yasin ^a   Oztop, Hakan F ^a   Pop, Ioan ^b  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Divided cavity; Natural convection; Numerical results; Porous medium

Indexed keywords

CASE II; DIVIDED CAVITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEMES; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFERS; HORIZONTAL WALLS; INCLINED PLATES; ISOTHERMAL CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; SQUARE CAVITIES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIOS; VERTICAL WALLS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 67349197249     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2008.12.015     Document Type: Article

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