Heat and mass transfer of a non-Newtonian fluid flow over a permeable wedge in porous media with variable wall temperature and concentration and heat source or sink

WSEAS Transactions on Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-20

  Chamkha, Ali J ^a  

^a MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Heat and mass transfer; Heat generation absorption; Mixed convection; non Newtonian fluid; Porous media; Wall transpiration

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949668454     PISSN: 17905044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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