Unsteady buoyancy-driven thermal convection in a non-Darcian porous medium vertical channel with asymmetric heating/cooling

Journal of Porous Media

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-79

  Zueco, Joaquín ^a   Bég, O Anwar ^b   Takhar, H S ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetric heating cooling; Buoyancy; Electronic cooling; Geothermal energy; Isotropic; Non Darcian; NSM; Nuclear energy systems; Porous medium; Unsteady thermo convection

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC HEATING/COOLING; ISOTROPIC; NON-DARCIAN; NSM; NUCLEAR ENERGY SYSTEMS; POROUS MEDIUM; UNSTEADY THERMO-CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY CONVERSION; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; HEAT CONVECTION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; SPICE; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

ELECTRONIC COOLING;

EID: 79955511908     PISSN: 1091028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/JPorMedia.v14.i1.60     Document Type: Article

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