Entropy generation due to natural convection cooling of a nanofluid

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 972-983

  Shahi, Mina ^a,b   Mahmoudi, Amir Houshang ^a,c   Raouf, Abbas Honarbakhsh ^a  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b R and D department of Semnan Water and Waste Water Company   (Iran)

^c R and D Department of Oghab Afshan Company   (Iran)

Author keywords

Entropy generation; Heat source; Nanofluid; Natural convection; Numerical study; Square cavity

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY GENERATION; HEAT SOURCES; NANO-FLUID; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SQUARE CAVITY;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NANOFLUIDICS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; THERMODYNAMICS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 79959988055     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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