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Natural Convection In A Square Enclosure Partly Filled With Two Layers Of Porous Material

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

12

Pages

10

Published

1996

Size

768 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/HT960071

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

P.H. Oosthuizen & J.T. Paul

Abstract

Two-dimensional natural convective flow in a square enclosure with one vertical wall heated to a uniform temperature ant w th the opposite wall uniformly cooled to a lower temperature and with the o M^diis acnaoatic na.s hf*^n r*otici/H^»*/a/-i TI» i r*1t t «-'v/v*n \xVfllolUCl Cll. 1 lie enflOQlirf* 1C rto$»f 1%f %:%% " r?^ ** p— medi:i:::%z fluid ^H 7Z *"* "^ *«~ being no partitions between the mafenaf on ^™™ "^t ^rs. There are two layers of porous wall These°J^*"** "». *« hot wall and one adjacent to the cold r^jsSF^?^^^±r" ^fsrs^r«^r'^x^'r!n^ with temperature which gives rise to the buoyancy forces The governing equations have been written in terms o/the stream funcLn fi%J%^ **"*** *" dimen

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