Thermoconvective flow in a saturated, isotropic, homogeneous porous medium using Brinkman’s model: numerical study

DOI10.1108/09615539810220298zbMath0962.76582MaRDI QIDQ4700929

H. S. Takhar, V. Ramachandra Prasad, O. Anwar Beg, V. M. Soundalgekar

Publication date: 12 June 2001

Published in: International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/09615539810220298

zbMATH Keywords

parametric investigation; viscous incompressible fluid; boundary layer; viscous dissipation; vertical flat plate; convective flow; non-Darcy porous medium; double shooting Runge-Kutta-Merson scheme; finite difference implicit Keller box method; wall heat transfer rate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76S05: Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage

76M20: Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76R10: Free convection

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