A Further Note on the Onset of Convection in a Layer of a Porous Medium Saturated by a Non-Newtonian Fluid of Power-Law Type

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-191

  Nield, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Onset of convection; Porous medium; Power law fluid; Weakly nonlinear stability theory

Indexed keywords

INDEX N; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; ONSET OF CONVECTION; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW FLUID; POWER-LAW; SINGULAR BEHAVIOR; WEAKLY NON-LINEAR STABILITIES;

NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS;

FLUIDS;

CONVECTION; FLUID FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 79955837418     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9733-x     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Barletta, A., Nield, D. A.: Linear instability of the horizontal throughflow in a plane porous layer saturated by a power-law fluid. Phys. Fluids (to appear).
2. Nield, D. A.: A note on the onset of convection in a layer of a porous medium saturated by a non-Newtonian fluid of power-law type. Transp. Porous. Med. doi: 10. 1007/s11242-010-9671-z (to appear).
3. Nield D. A., Bejan A.: Convection in Porous Media. 3rd edn. Springer, New York (2006).