Scaling group transformation for MHD boundary-layer flow of a nanofluid past a vertical stretching surface in the presence of suction/injection

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 241, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2053-2059

  Kandasamy, R ^a   Loganathan, P ^b   Arasu, P Puvi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; EXACT SOLUTION; LAMINAR FLUID FLOW; LEWIS NUMBERS; LIE GROUP TRANSFORMATION; NANO-FLUID; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SCALING GROUP; SPECIAL FORMS; STREAM CONDITION; SUCTION/INJECTION; SYMMETRY GROUPS; THERMOPHORETIC; TRANSLATION SYMMETRY; VERTICAL STRETCHING SURFACES; VERTICAL SURFACE; VOLUME FRACTION PROFILE;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 79957710502     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2011.04.011     Document Type: Article

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