Natural convection heat transfer of non-Newtonian fluids in porous media from a vertical cone under mixed thermal boundary conditions

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 693-697

  Cheng, Ching Yang ^a  

^a SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Mixed thermal boundary conditions; Natural convection; Non Newtonian fluid; Porous medium; Vertical cone

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER THICKNESS; CUBIC SPLINE COLLOCATION METHOD; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; MIXED THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NATURAL CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NON-NEWTONIAN POWER-LAW FLUIDS; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER-LAW; PRESCRIBED HEAT FLUXES; PRESCRIBED SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIMILARITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL CONDITION; VERTICAL CONE; VISCOSITY INDEX; WORK STUDY;

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONES; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 67649108872     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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