Scaling Transformations for Boundary Layer Flow near the Stagnation-Point on a Heated Permeable Stretching Surface in a Porous Medium Saturated with a Nanofluid and Heat Generation/Absorption Effects

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-39

  Hamad, M A A ^a,b   Pop, I ^c  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Nanofluid; Porous media; Stagnation point flow; Stretching sheet

Indexed keywords

FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; FRACTION PARAMETERS; FREE-STREAM VELOCITY; GROUP ANALYSIS; HEAT GENERATION/ABSORPTION; HEAT SOURCE/SINK PARAMETER; INTERNAL HEAT; LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBER; NANO-FLUID; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUM; SCALING TRANSFORMATION; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; SKIN FRICTION COEFFICIENT; STAGNATION-POINT FLOW; STRETCHING SHEET; STRETCHING SURFACE; STRETCHING VELOCITY; SUCTION/BLOWING; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; WORKING FLUID;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLUIDS; FRICTION; NANOPARTICLES; NUSSELT NUMBER; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; TITRATION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

ABSORPTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; FLUID FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; STEADY FLOW; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 79952401336     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9683-8     Document Type: Article

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