Effect of Discrete Heating on Natural Convection in a Rectangular Porous Enclosure

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 261-281

  Sivasankaran, S ^a   Do, Younghae ^b   Sankar, M ^b,c  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^c EPCET   (India)

Author keywords

Convection; Discrete heating; Finite difference method; Heat generation; Porous medium

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WALL; CONVECTION; DARCY NUMBER; DISCRETE HEAT SOURCES; DISCRETE HEATING; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; FREE CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT SOURCES; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; IMPLICIT FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MODIFIED RAYLEIGH; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POROUS ENCLOSURE; POROUS MEDIUM; RATE OF HEAT TRANSFER; TOP HEATER; VORTICITY-STREAM FUNCTION;

ENCLOSURES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEATING; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS;

ASPECT RATIO;

CONVECTION; DARCY LAW; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MODELING; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 79951946802     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9620-x     Document Type: Article

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