A numerical investigation of transient natural convection heat transfer of aqueous nanofluids in a differentially heated square cavity

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 585-589

  Yu, Zi Tao ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Xu, Xu ^b   Fan, Li Wu ^c   Hu, Ya Cai ^a   Cen, Ke Fa ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Differentially heated square cavity; Heat transfer; Nanofluids; Numerical simulation; Transient natural convection

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; DIFFERENTIALLY HEATED SQUARE CAVITY; NANOFLUIDS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; TRANSIENT NATURAL CONVECTION;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; TITRATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 79954628891     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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