Natural Convection as an Asymmetrical Factor of the Transport Through Porous Membrane

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 685-698

  Slezak A ^a   Grzegorczyn, S ^b   Jasik Slezak J ^a   Michalska Malecka K ^c  

^a CZESTOCHOWA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c Silesia Medical University   (Poland)

Author keywords

Concentration boundary layers; Concentration Rayleigh number; Kedem Katchalsky equations; Membrane transport

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION POLARIZATION; CONCENTRATION RAYLEIGH NUMBER; CRITICAL VALUE; GLUCOSE CONCENTRATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; HORIZONTAL PLANES; HYDRODYNAMIC INSTABILITIES; KEDEM-KATCHALSKY EQUATIONS; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MEMBRANE SYSTEM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONIONIC; POROUS MEMBRANES; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THICKNESS OF CONCENTRATION BOUNDARY LAYERS; VOLUME FLUX;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; GLUCOSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBRANES; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL CONVECTION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 77956010720     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9534-7     Document Type: Article

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