.../value The area of nanofluids is very original. A.J. Chamkha can be contacted at: achamkha@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Natural convection Porous media Nanofluid Cone Thermophoresis Brownian diffusion Convection Porous materials Heat transfer...

... Nusselt number Nu_m=is the mean Nusselt number p=dimensional pressure P=dimensionless pressure Pr=Prandtl number T=fluid temperature Natural convection Open cavity Inclination angle Porous media Porous materials Flow...

... Limited 2012 Pulsatile flow Porous annulus Homotopy analysis method Flow Porous materials a and b=radii (a<b) u=velocity component in the positive direction of r w=velocity component in the positive direction...

.... Originality/value This work is the first application of the TTM to solve solidification in porous media, which can find its application in post‐processing of laser sintered parts. Yuwen Zhang can be contacted at: zhangyu@missouri.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Porous materials...

... coefficient (−(1/ρ)(∂ρ/∂c)_{P,t) Γ=boundary of the domain B.V. Rathish Kumar can be contacted at: bvrk@iitk.ac.in © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Convection Flow Porous materials Heat transfer Finite element analysis}...

... A.J. Chamkha can be contacted at: achamkha@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Heat transfer Mass transfer Porous materials Convection Chemical reactions On other hand, the combined heat and mass transfer problems with chemical reactions in porous medium...

... 2011 Porous materials Thermal diffusion Fluxes Convection Flow H′=height of the enclosure L′=width of the porous layer A_r=aspect ratio of the porous matrix, L′/H′ D=mass diffusivity of species D_T=thermo‐diffusion coefficient g=gravitational...

... can be contacted at: achamkha@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Chemical reactions Convection Dissipation factor Porous materials The governing Equations (7)‐(9) subject to the boundary conditions (10) are solved numerically using the fourth‐order Runge‐Kutta...

... the governing equations of flow and heat transfer. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Porous materials Blocks Thermodynamic properties Cooling Flow a aspect ratio b length of block (m) c height of block (m) C₂ inertial resistance factor Gr Grashoff...

..., for example, axisymmetric flow in combustors. O.D. Makinde can be contacted at: makinded@cput.ac.za Electric current Magnetic fields Porous materials Flow Heat transfer Viscosity © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 The numerical calculations for the local skin friction...

... ; Felicelli et al., 1998 ; Zabaras and Samanta, 2004). Convection Porous materials Simulation Pipes Meshes The solution scheme is designed to allow accurate computations in and investigations of challenging parameter regimes. The general idea is to combine both time stepping...

... be contacted at: burhan@ktu.edu.tr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Porous materials Fluid dynamics Fluid engineering Turbulent flow Increasing the injection velocity through rear surface decreases the (Equation 23) , while increasing suction velocity drastically increases...

... years, most of the researchers focused on regular geometries such as rectangular or square cavity bounded by thick wall. Ioan Pop can be contacted at: pop.ioan@yahoo.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Heat transfer Porous materials Heat conduction Convection Numerical...

... and as the injection parameter is increased the velocities are increased in the presence of fluid injection. H.M. Duwairi can be contacted at: duwairi@ju.edu.jo © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Heat transfer Mass transfer Convection Porous materials C = species...

... is independent of the permeability of the porous matrix, or the Darcy and Forchheimer numbers. Manab Kumar Das can be contacted at: manab@mech.iitkgp.ernet.in © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Convection Porous materials Numerical analysis Flow A =area (m²...

... Limited 2009 Porous materials Fluid dynamics Flow There is a variety of engineering applications ranging from oil recovery and soil flows to composites, printing, polymer filling, fuel cells in which the spread of the fluid phase into porous medium occurs (Holman et al., 2002...

... past an impulsively started isothermal vertical plate with variable mass diffusion ”, Journal of Energy, Heat and Mass Transfer , Vol. 23 , pp. 63 ‐ 72 . Convection Flow Porous materials Magnetohydrodynamics Heat Flux u¯, v¯ Velocity‐components g...

...) where z_ij refers to the mass of component i in phase j per pore volume. In this work, the above form for R is adopted. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Flow Porous materials Numerical analysis Fluid mechanics...

..., Darcy number and Reynolds number on lift and drag coefficients, and the length of circulation zone or shedding period are studied. H.T. Low can be contacted at: mpelowht@nus.edu.sg © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Porous materials Liquid flow Laminar flow Numerical analysis...

... Flow Porous materials Finite element analysis Blood Limbs Temperature The human finger has a high‐sensory capability that can convey information about mechanical, thermal, and tissue‐damaging events. It has been known that the finger skin temperature is closely related to the total digital...