Heat transfer in a layered porous medium heated from below

DOI10.1017/S0022112081002334zbMath0542.76114MaRDI QIDQ3330834

Robert McKibbin, Michael J. O'Sullivan

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112081002334

zbMATH Keywords

critical Rayleigh number; onset of convection; multi-layered systems; supercritical Rayleigh numbers; cell width; layered porous medium heated from below; Nusselt-number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E15: Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability

76S05: Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage

76R10: Free convection

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