Double diffusive natural convection heat transfer enhancement in a square enclosure using nanofluids

Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Esfahani, Javad Abolfazli ^a   Bordbar, Vahid ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Double diffusive; Nanofluid; Natural convection; Square enclosure

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE; DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE NATURAL CONVECTION; FINITE VOLUME; GOVERNING PARAMETERS; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; LAMINAR REGIME; LEWIS NUMBERS; LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBER; MAXWELL-GARNETT MODELS; NANOFLUID; NANOFLUIDS; RAYLEIGH; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; SQUARE ENCLOSURE; SQUARE ENCLOSURES; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; WATER BASED;

ENCLOSURES; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUSSELT NUMBER; SILVER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 79957580272     PISSN: 19492944     EISSN: 19492952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4003794     Document Type: Article

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