Natural convection of water-CuO nanofluid in a cavity with two pairs of heat source-sink

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 672-678

  Aminossadati, S M ^a   Ghasemi, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Nanofluid; Natural convection; Source sink; Square cavity

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WALL; COMPARISON STUDY; CONTROL VOLUMES; COUPLING BETWEEN VELOCITY AND PRESSURE; CUO NANOFLUID; GOVERNING DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HEAT SOURCES; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; NANO-FLUID; NEWTONIANS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; SOURCE-SINK; SQUARE CAVITY;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION; SPECIFIC HEAT; TITRATION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 79954628098     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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