Natural Convection Boundary-Layer flow in a Porous Medium with Temperature-Dependent Boundary Conditions

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 397-414

  Merkin, J H ^a   Pop, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Boundary layer flow; Convective flow; Porous media; Temperature dependent wall conditions

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; CONVECTION PROBLEM; CONVECTIVE FLOW; DARCY'S LAW; DENSITY VARIATIONS; FINITE DISTANCE; FINITE TIME; FLUID-SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW VARIATION; POWER-LAW; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; SIMILARITY TRANSFORMATION; STAGNATION-POINT FLOW; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT WALL CONDITIONS; THERMAL RUNAWAYS; TIME DEVELOPMENT; VERTICAL SURFACE; WALL HEAT FLUX; WALL TEMPERATURES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; MIXED CONVECTION; NATURAL CONVECTION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CONVECTION; DARCY LAW; HEAT FLUX; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW;

EID: 78149490468     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9569-9     Document Type: Article

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