Free convection in a triangle cavity filled with a porous medium saturated with nanofluids with flush mounted heater on the wall

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2141-2153

  Sun, Qiang ^a   Pop, Ioan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Free convection; Nanofluid; Porous media; Triangular enclosure

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; DARCY'S LAW; FINITE SIZE; FLUSH-MOUNTED HEATERS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; INCLINED WALLS; MAXIMUM VALUES; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; SUCCESSIVE-UNDER-RELAXATION; TRIANGULAR ENCLOSURE; VERTICAL WALL;

ALGEBRA; ASPECT RATIO; ENCLOSURES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; TITRATION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 80051887155     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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