Natural convection of non-Newtonian fluids along a wavy vertical plate including the magnetic field effect

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2831-2842

  Yang, Yue Tzu ^a   Chen, Cha'o Kuang ^a   Lin, Mong Tung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; LAMINAR FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PLATE METAL; TEMPERATURE;

CUBIC SPLINE APPROXIMATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0030241218     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0017-9310(95)00354-1     Document Type: Article

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