Natural convection in porous triangular enclosure with a centered conducting body

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 368-376

  Varol, Yasin ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conducting body; Porous media; Triangular enclosure

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING BODIES; DARCY LAW; FLUID FLOW; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GRAVITY CENTERS; HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW; LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MEDIA; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIO; TRIANGULAR CAVITIES; TRIANGULAR ENCLOSURE;

ENCLOSURES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 79551690021     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2010.12.013     Document Type: Article

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