- Bejan, Adrian and Khair, Khairy R., HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER BY NATURAL CONVECTION IN A POROUS MEDIUM.,
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 28 no. 5
pp. 909 - 918 [0017-9310(85)90272-8] .
(last updated on 2007/04/06)
This paper reports a fundamental study of the phenomenon of natural convection heat and mass transfer near a vertical surface embedded in a fluid-saturated porous medium. The buoyancy effect is due to the variation of temperature and concentration across the boundary layer. The interest in this class of flows has been stimulated by heat transfer engineering applications such as geothermal energy conversion and thermal insulation design.
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