Thermal Instability in a Porous Medium Layer Saturated with a Viscoelastic Nanofluid

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 461-477

  Sheu, Long Jye ^a  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Oldroyd B; Oscillatory convection; Porous media; Thermal instability; Viscoelastic nanofluids

Indexed keywords

NANOFLUIDS; OLDROYD-B; OSCILLATORY CONVECTION; POROUS MEDIA; THERMAL INSTABILITY;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; HEAT CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; RHEOLOGY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOPHORESIS; VISCOELASTICITY;

NANOFLUIDICS;

BROWNIAN MOTION; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DARCY LAW; MOMENTUM; PARAMETERIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; SATURATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VISCOELASTIC FLUID;

EID: 79956140125     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9749-2     Document Type: Article

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