Maximum density effects on buoyancy-driven convection in a porous trapezoidal cavity

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 401-409

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

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Maximum density; Natural convection; Porous media; Trapezoidal enclosure

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FORCES; BUOYANCY INDUCED FLOW; BUOYANCY-DRIVEN CONVECTION; COLD WATERS; CONVECTIVE FLOW; MAXIMUM DENSITY; NUMERICAL STUDIES; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TRAPEZOIDAL CAVITY; TRAPEZOIDAL ENCLOSURE;

BUOYANCY; ENCLOSURES; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 77649187823     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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