Radiation effect on free convection laminar flow from an isothermal sphere

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 198, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1483-1496

  Molla, Md Mamun ^a   Hossain, Md Anwar ^b   Siddiqa, Sadia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Natural convection; Nonlinear system; Radiation conduction; Rate of heat transfer; Skin friction coefficient; Sphere

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER EQUATIONS; DENSE FLUID; EFFICIENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; IMPLICIT FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ISOTHERMAL SPHERES; KELLER BOX SCHEME; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RADIATION-CONDUCTION; RATE OF HEAT TRANSFER; SHEARING STRESS; SKIN-FRICTION COEFFICIENT; SURFACE HEATING; SYSTEMS OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FRICTION; LAMINAR FLOW; NATURAL CONVECTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPHERES;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 80051941445     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: 15635201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986445.2011.552044     Document Type: Article

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