Optimal perturbations of gravitationally unstable, transient boundary layers in porous media

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 727, Issue , 2013, Pages 456-487

  Daniel, Don ^a   Tilton, Nils ^a   Riaz, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Buoyancy driven instability; Convection in porous media; Fingering instability

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; MODAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; STABILITY;

ADJOINT BASED METHOD; BUOYANCY DRIVEN INSTABILITY; CLASSICAL OPTIMIZATION; CONVECTION IN POROUS MEDIAS; DIFFUSIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; FINGERING INSTABILITIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

AQUIFER; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; FLOW STABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION; POROUS MEDIUM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84885069610     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2013.277     Document Type: Article

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