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Modelling the Effect of Surface Tension on the Onset of Natural Convection in a Saturated Porous Medium

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Abstract. Comments are made about limitations of the model proposed by Hennenberg et al. for convection in a porous medium layer driven by the Marangoni effect, and an alternative model for this problem is presented. The predictions of the two models are significantly different.

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Nield, D.A. Modelling the Effect of Surface Tension on the Onset of Natural Convection in a Saturated Porous Medium. Transport in Porous Media 31, 365–368 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006598423126

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