Soret and Dufour effects on free convection flow of non-Newtonian fluids along a vertical plate embedded in a porous medium with thermal radiation

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 480-483

  Tai, Bo Chen ^a   Char, Ming I ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dufour number; Non Newtonian fluid; Nusselt number; Sherwood number; Soret number

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER EQUATIONS; BUOYANCY RATIO; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; COUPLED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE METHODS; DUFOUR NUMBER; FLUID FLOW; FREE CONVECTION FLOWS; LAMINAR-FREE CONVECTION; LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBER; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NON-NEWTONIAN POWER-LAW FLUIDS; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW FLUID; POWER LAW INDEX; RADIATION PARAMETERS; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; SIMILARITY TRANSFORMATION; SORET AND DUFOUR EFFECTS; THERMAL RADIATIONS; VERTICAL PLATE;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUIDS; HEAT RADIATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; POROUS PLATES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RHEOLOGY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOUS FLOW;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 77951642966     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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