Unsteady Natural Convection, Heat and Mass Transfer in Inclined Triangular Porous Enclosures in the Presence of Heat Source or Sink: Effect of Sinusoidal Variation of Boundary Conditions

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-23

  Mansour, M A ^a   Abd Elaziz, M M ^b   Mohamed, R A ^b   Ahmed, Sameh E ^b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Double diffusive; Heat generation absorption; Triangular enclosures; Various boundary conditions

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WALL; BUOYANCY PARAMETERS; DARCY NUMBER; DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE; DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GOVERNING PARAMETERS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HEAT GENERATION/ABSORPTION; HEAT SOURCES; INCLINATION ANGLES; POROUS ENCLOSURE; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; SINUSOIDAL VARIATIONS; TIME PARAMETER; TRIANGULAR ENCLOSURE; UNSTEADY NATURAL CONVECTION; VARIOUS BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; VELOCITY COMPONENTS;

ASPECT RATIO; ENCLOSURES; MASS TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ABSORPTION; AMPLITUDE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BUOYANCY; CONVECTION; DARCY LAW; DOUBLE DIFFUSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT SOURCE; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 79952454026     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9661-1     Document Type: Article

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