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Numerical analysis of natural convection for a porous rectangular enclosure with sinusoidally varying temperature profile on the bottom wall

Yasin Varol, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
- Vol. 35, Iss: 1, pp 56-64
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In this article, the problem of steady natural convection flow through a fluid-saturated porous medium in a rectangular enclosure with a sinusoidal varying temperature profile on the bottom wall was conducted.
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This article is published in International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer.The article was published on 2008-01-01. It has received 94 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Natural convection & Rayleigh number.

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Natural Convection in a Rectangular Enclosure with Sinusoidal Temperature Distributions on both Side Walls

Qihong Deng, +1 more
- 30 Jul 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-dimensional steady and laminar natural convection in an air-filled (Pr = 0.7) rectangular enclosure is investigated numerically, where the horizontal walls are thermally insulated and the vertical side walls have two spatially varying sinusoidal temperature distributions of different amplitudes and phases.
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A heatline analysis of natural convection in a square inclined enclosure filled with a CuO nanofluid under non-uniform wall heating condition

Hakan F. Oztop, +4 more
- 01 Sep 2012 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used heatline visualization technique to understand heat transport path in an inclined non-uniformly heated enclosure filled with water-based CuO nanofluid.
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Computational analysis of non-isothermal temperature distribution on natural convection in nanofluid filled enclosures

Hakan F. Öztop, +6 more
- 01 Apr 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of steady state natural convection in an enclosure filled with a nanofluid has been analyzed numerically by using heating and cooling by sinusoidal temperature profiles on one side.
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Entropy generation due to natural convection in non-uniformly heated porous isosceles triangular enclosures at different positions

Yasin Varol, +2 more
- 01 Feb 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, entropy generation due to heat transfer irreversibility (HTI) and fluid friction irreversability (FFI) was calculated from its definition using dependent variables of velocities and temperature fields.
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Visualization of natural convection heat transport using heatline method in porous non-isothermally heated triangular cavity

Yasin Varol, +3 more
- 01 Oct 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the heat transfer in a porous media filled and non-isothermally heated triangular enclosure using finite difference technique and Darcy-modified Rayleigh numbers.
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Convection in Porous Media

Donald A. Nield, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an introduction to convection in porous media assumes the reader is familiar with basic fluid mechanics and heat transfer, going on to cover insulation of buildings, energy storage and recovery, geothermal reservoirs, nuclear waste disposal, chemical reactor engineering and the storage of heat-generating materials like grain and coal.
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Handbook of porous media

Kambiz Vafai
TL;DR: Theoretical analysis of transport in Porous Media: Multiscale Modeling of Porous Medium Systems as discussed by the authors is a multiscale approach for modelling Porous medium systems.
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Transport Phenomena in Porous Media

Derek B. Ingham, +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a reference record created on 2004-09-07, modified on 2016-08-08, and used for the purpose of a reference document.
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Transport phenomena in porous media

Jacob Bear, +1 more
- 25 Feb 1986 - 
TL;DR: The 1985 Advanced Study Institute on Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena in Porous Media (ASI) as discussed by the authors was a sequel to the first ASCI, which was a combination of a conference of experts and a teaching institute.
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Natural convection in a square cavity filled with a porous medium: Effects of various thermal boundary conditions

Tanmay Basak, +3 more
- 01 Apr 2006 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the Darcy-Forchheimer model is used to simulate the momentum transfer in the porous medium and numerical results are presented in terms of stream functions, temperature profiles and Nusselt numbers.