Double-diffusive convection with variable viscosity from a vertical truncated cone in porous media in the presence of magnetic field and radiation effects

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3867-3878

  Mahdy, A ^a   Chamkha, A J ^b   Baba, Yousef ^b  

^a SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Double diffusion; Magnetic field; Porous media; Radiation; Truncated cone; Variable viscosity

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY RATIO; COMBINED HEAT; DOUBLE DIFFUSION; DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION; FLUID TEMPERATURES; FLUID VELOCITIES; FLUID-SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM; FOURTH-ORDER; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LEWIS NUMBERS; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD PARAMETER; NEWTON-RAPHSON; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PHYSICAL ASPECTS; POROUS MEDIA; RADIATION PARAMETERS; RUNGE-KUTTA INTEGRATION; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; SHOOTING TECHNIQUE; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; THERMAL RADIATIONS; TRUNCATED CONE; VARIABLE VISCOSITY; VARIATION PARAMETER;

FLUIDS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETISM; MASS TRANSFER; POROUS MATERIALS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; VISCOSITY;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 77953324247     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2010.04.024     Document Type: Article

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