Natural convection heat transfer augmentation in a partially heated and partially cooled square cavity utilizing nanofluids

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 411-431

  Das, Manab Kumar ^a   Ohal, Pravin Shridhar ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b TATA MOTORS LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Convection; Flow; Heat transfer; Nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ZONE; CONVECTION; CONVECTION FLOW; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FINITE VOLUME APPROACH; FLOW; FLOW PROCESS; FLUID FLOW; GAIN INSIGHT; GOVERNING PARAMETERS; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; NATURAL CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; PARTIALLY COOLED; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SIMPLEC ALGORITHM; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; SPACE CONSTRAINTS; SQUARE CAVITY; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; TITRATION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 76049121467     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530910938353     Document Type: Article

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