Natural convective boundary-layer flow in a heat generating porous medium with a prescribed wall heat flux

Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 543-564

  Merkin, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary layer flow; Convective flow; Internal heat generation; Porous media

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; BOUNDARY-LAYER SOLUTIONS; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVECTIVE FLOW; FINITE DISTANCES; FREE CONVECTION BOUNDARY-LAYER FLOWS; INTERNAL HEAT GENERATION; INTERNAL HEATING; LEADING EDGES; LOCAL TEMPERATURES; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUMS; THERMAL RUNAWAYS; VERTICAL SURFACES; WALL HEAT FLUXES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DISTRICT HEATING; HEAT GENERATION; HEATING; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

EID: 67349200995     PISSN: 00442275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00033-008-8051-9     Document Type: Article

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