Effect of local thermal non-equilibrium on the onset of convection in a porous medium layer saturated by a nanofluid

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 425-436

  Kuznetsov, A V ^a   Nield, D A ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Instability; Local thermal non equilibrium; Nanofluid; Natural convection; Porous medium

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; DARCY MODEL; FLUID HEAT CAPACITY; HORIZONTAL LAYERS; LEWIS NUMBERS; LOCAL THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM; MATRIX PHASIS; NANO-FLUID; ONSET OF CONVECTION; POROUS MEDIUM; SMALL PARTICLES; TEMPERATURE MODELS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

BROWNIAN MOTION; DARCY LAW; FLUID FLOW; INSTABILITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77952236410     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9452-8     Document Type: Article

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