Developing laminar mixed convection of nanofluids in an inclined tube with uniform wall heat flux

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 146-164

  Mansour, R Ben ^a   Galanis, N ^a   Nguyen, C T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convection; Flow; Heat transfer; Nanotechnology; Numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MIXED CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DEVELOPING REGIONS; FLOW; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; INCLINED TUBES; MIXED CONVECTION FLOW; MOMENTUM FLUX; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; NEW CORRELATIONS; NON-LINEAR; NON-UNIFORM GRIDS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICLE VOLUME CONCENTRATIONS; POWER-LAW; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION; THERMAL APPLICATIONS; UNIFORM WALL HEAT FLUX;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 67649390959     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530910930946     Document Type: Article

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