%0 Journal Article %A Alex, Sherin M. %A Patil, Prabhamani R. %D 2000 %I Begell House %N 3 %P 10 %R 10.1615/JPorMedia.v3.i3.20 %T Thermal Instability in an Inclined Isotropic Porous Medium %U https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/49dcde6d4c0809db,2376c57b6bba3756,778810435092e5e2.html %V 3 %X Convective instability in afluid-saturated isotropic porous layer between infinite parallel plates inclined arbitrarily with respect to gravity is investigated for both Darcy and Brinkman models. When the heat flux at the boundaries is fixed, it is shown that if the temperature gradient parallel to the plates is adverse, the critical Rayleigh number is zero. %8 2000-12-01