Numerical modeling of laminar pulsating flow in porous media

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 0412031-0412039

  Kim, S M ^a   Ghiaasiaan, S M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forchheimer coefficient; Permeability; Phase shift; Porous media; Pulsating flow

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE PERMEABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID MECHANICS; CRYOCOOLING; FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; FLOW OSCILLATIONS; FLOW PULSATION; MOMENTUM CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; NUMBER OF UNIT CELLS; NUMERICAL DATA; NUMERICAL MODELING; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHASE LAGS; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS STRUCTURES; PRESSURE WAVES; PULSATING FLOW; PULSE TUBES; SINUSOIDAL VARIATIONS; SQUARE CYLINDERS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VELOCITY WAVES;

CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); FLUID MECHANICS; FUZZY CONTROL; PHASE SHIFT; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STEADY FLOW;

OSCILLATING FLOW;

EID: 77955267998     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3089541     Document Type: Article

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