Conduction-natural convection in a partitioned triangular enclosure filled with fluid saturated porous media

Journal of Porous Media

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 593-611

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

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WALL; DARCY-FLOW MODEL; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; FINITE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLUID SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; FLUID-SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM; INCLINED WALLS; INCREASING FUNCTIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIO; TRIANGULAR ENCLOSURE; VERTICAL WALL;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENCLOSURES; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

EID: 68349094931     PISSN: 1091028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/JPorMedia.v12.i7.10     Document Type: Article

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