Thermal Analysis of Flow in a Porous Medium Over a Permeable Stretching Wall

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 661-676

  Tamayol, A ^a   Hooman, K ^b   Bahrami, M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Entropy generation; Porous media; Similarity solution; Stretching surface; Wall suction injection

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY GENERATION; POROUS MEDIA; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; STRETCHING SURFACE; SUCTION/INJECTION;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT FLUX; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMOANALYSIS;

ENTROPY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENTROPY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78149496857     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9584-x     Document Type: Article

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