Natural convection cooling of a localised heat source at the bottom of a nanofluid-filled enclosure

European Journal of Mechanics, B/Fluids

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 630-640

  Aminossadati, S M ^a   Ghasemi, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Heat source; Nanofluid; Natural convection; Rayleigh number

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WALL; COOLING PERFORMANCE; FINITE VOLUME APPROACH; HEAT SOURCE; HEAT SOURCES; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; NANOFLUID; NANOFLUIDS; NATURAL CONVECTION COOLING; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PURE WATER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; TRANSPORT EQUATION; VERTICAL WALL;

COOLING; ENCLOSURES; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 67749139444     PISSN: 09977546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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