Non-similar Solution for Natural Convective Boundary Layer Flow Over a Sphere Embedded in a Porous Medium Saturated with a Nanofluid

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-22

  Chamkha, Ali ^a   Gorla, Rama Subba Reddy ^b   Ghodeswar, Kaustubh ^b  

^a MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT   (Kuwait)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanofluid; Natural convection; Porous medium

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER ANALYSIS; BROWNIAN MOTION; BUOYANCY RATIO; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; FRICTION FACTORS; ISOTHERMAL SPHERES; LEWIS NUMBERS; MASS TRANSFER RATE; NANO-FLUID; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARAMETRIC VARIATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; SIMILAR SOLUTION; SURFACE HEAT TRANSFER;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FRICTION; MASS TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; SPECIFIC HEAT; SPHERES;

NANOFLUIDICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BROWNIAN MOTION; BUOYANCY; CONVECTION; DARCY LAW; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 79951952759     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9601-0     Document Type: Article

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