Natural convection boundary layer of a non-Newtonian fluid about a permeable vertical cone embedded in a porous medium saturated with a nanofluid

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3140-3151

  Rashad, A M ^a   El Hakiem, M A ^a   Abdou, M M M ^a  

^a ASWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Nanofluid thermophoresis; Natural convection; Non Newtonian fluid; Porous medium

Indexed keywords

FREE CONVECTION BOUNDARY-LAYER FLOW; NANO-FLUID; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POROUS MEDIUM; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; TRANSPIRATION VELOCITY; VOLUME FRACTION PROFILE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CONES; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUIDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; RHEOLOGY; THERMOPHORESIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOUS FLOW;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 80053360473     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2011.08.027     Document Type: Article

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