High Rayleigh number convection in a porous medium containing a thin low-permeability layer

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 756, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 844-869

  Hewitt, Duncan R ^a   Neufeld, Jerome A ^a,b   Lister, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

convection; convection in porous media; porous media

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; POROUS MATERIALS;

CONVECTION IN POROUS MEDIAS; GEOLOGICAL FORMATION; HIGH-RAYLEIGH-NUMBER CONVECTION; INTERIOR LAYER; LOW PERMEABILITY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; STEADY CONVECTION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 84910020601     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2014.478     Document Type: Article

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