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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
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Numerical analysis of natural convection in a porous cavity with the sinusoidal thermal boundary condition using a thermal nonequilibrium model

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Pages 1280-1296 | Received 13 Jan 2015, Accepted 20 Oct 2015, Published online: 02 May 2016

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