The Onset of Double-Diffusive Nanofluid Convection in a Layer of a Saturated Porous Medium

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 941-951

  Kuznetsov, A V ^a   Nield, D A ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Horizontal layer; Nanofluid convection; Natural convection; Porous media; Thermophoresis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BINARY FLUIDS; BROWNIAN MOTION; CROSS-DIFFUSION; DARCY MODEL; HORIZONTAL LAYERS; NANO-FLUID; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUM; SALTY WATER; SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM; STABILITY BOUNDARIES; THERMAL ENERGY EQUATION;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; GALERKIN METHODS; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMOPHORESIS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

BROWNIAN MOTION; CONVECTION; DARCY LAW; DIFFUSION; FLUID FLOW; GALERKIN METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED MEDIUM;

EID: 78149501254     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9600-1     Document Type: Article

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