Magnetic field effects on free convection flow of a nanofluid past a vertical semi-infinite flat plate

Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1338-1346

  Hamad, M A A ^a   Pop, I ^b   Md Ismail, A I ^c  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Free convection; Group theory; Nanofluids; Similarity solution

Indexed keywords

FLAT PLATE; FREE CONVECTION FLOWS; FREE CONVECTIONS; GROUP THEORY; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; PARAMETER GROUPS; SIMILARITY REDUCTIONS; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; VERTICAL FLAT PLATES;

ALGEBRA; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NATURAL CONVECTION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 79952618141     PISSN: 14681218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2010.09.014     Document Type: Article

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