A finite-volume model for fluid flow and nonequilibrium heat transfer in conjugate fluid-porous domains using general unstructured grids

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 252-277

  DeGroot, Christopher T ^a   Straatman, Anthony G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTIVE FLUX; FINITE-VOLUME; INTERFACE CONDITIONS; LAMINAR REYNOLDS NUMBER; LOCAL THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM; MOMENTUM EQUATION; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PRESSURE FORCE; PRESSURE-VELOCITY COUPLING; SECOND-ORDER ACCURACY; STRONG COUPLING; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; VELOCITY FIELD;

FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 80052183485     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790.2011.601180     Document Type: Article

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