A Note on the Onset of Convection in a Layer of a Porous Medium Saturated by a Non-Newtonian Nanofluid of Power-Law Type

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 121-123

  Nield, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Nanofluid; Onset of convection; Porous medium; Power law fluid

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; NANO-FLUID; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NON-NEWTONIAN; ONSET OF CONVECTION; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW INDEX; POWER-LAW; POWER-LAW FLUID;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FLUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

BROWNIAN MOTION; CONVECTION; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS;

EID: 79952442254     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9671-z     Document Type: Article

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