The Effect of Vertical Throughflow on Thermal Instability in a Porous Medium Layer Saturated by a Nanofluid

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 765-775

  Nield, D A ^a   Kuznetsov, A V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Instability; Nanofluid; Natural convection; Porous medium; Throughflow

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; CRITICAL RAYLEIGH NUMBER; HORIZONTAL LAYERS; INSTABILITY; NANOFLUID; ONSET OF CONVECTION; OSCILLATORY MODE; POROUS MEDIUM; THERMAL INSTABILITIES; THROUGHFLOW;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; STABILITY; THERMOPHORESIS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

BROWNIAN MOTION; FLOW MODELING; FLOW STABILITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SATURATION; THERMAL CONVECTION; THROUGHFLOW;

EID: 79953028343     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9717-x     Document Type: Article

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