Steady and Unsteady Heat Transfer in a Channel Partially Filled with Porous Media Under Thermal Non-Equilibrium Condition

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 177-198

  Forooghi, Pourya ^a   Abkar, Mahdi ^a   Saffar Avval, Majid ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Heat transfer enhancement; Local thermal non equilibrium condition; Porous media; Pulsatile flow

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT WALL HEAT FLUX; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; LOCAL THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; LOCAL THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM; POROUS LAYERS; POROUS MEDIA; STEADY CONDITIONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIO; THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM; TWO POROUS LAYERS; UNSTEADY HEAT TRANSFER;

FLUIDS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; PULSATILE FLOW; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CHANNEL FLOW; CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; POROUS MEDIUM; STEADY FLOW; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 79952006104     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9615-7     Document Type: Article

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