Natural convection inside a bidisperse porous medium enclosure

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Narasimhan, Arunn ^a   Reddy, B V K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-DISPERSION; BIDISPERSE POROUS MEDIUM; CORE REGION; DARCY NUMBER; DIFFERENTIAL HEATING; HIGH-RA; MACROPORE VOLUME; MACROPOROUS; MICROPOROUS; MODIFIED RAYLEIGH; NUMBER OF BLOCKS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POROUS BLOCKS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SIDE WALLS; SOLID-PHASE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROPOROSITY; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS;

ENCLOSURES;

EID: 77955286839     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3192134     Document Type: Article

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