Enhanced natural convection in an isosceles triangular enclosure filled with a nanofluid

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1739-1753

  Aminossadati, S M ^a   Ghasemi, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Heat source; Isosceles triangular enclosure; Nanofluid; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

APEX ANGLES; BOTTOM WALL; HEAT SOURCES; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; ISOSCELES TRIANGULAR; MAXWELL MODELS; NANO-FLUID; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

ETHYLENE; HEAT TRANSFER; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MIXED CONVECTION; NANOFLUIDICS; NATURAL CONVECTION; TITRATION;

ENCLOSURES;

EID: 79952991970     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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