Meshless local Petrov-Galerkin analysis of free convection of nanofluid in a cavity with wavy side walls

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 433-445

  Nikfar, Mehdi ^a   Mahmoodi, Mostafa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cavity; MLPG method; Natural convection; Unity test function; Wavy walls

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WALL; CAVITY; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; EFFECTIVE DYNAMICS; FIELD VARIABLES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HOT WALL; LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION; MESH-LESS METHODS; MESHLESS LOCAL PETROV-GALERKIN; MESHLESS LOCAL PETROV-GALERKIN METHODS; MESHLESS TECHNIQUES; MLPG METHOD; NANO-FLUID; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SIDE WALLS; SQUARE ENCLOSURES; STREAM FUNCTION-VORTICITY FORMULATION; TEST FUNCTIONS; VISCOSITY MODELS; WAVY WALL; WEAK FORMULATION; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

ENCLOSURES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GALERKIN METHODS; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; VISCOSITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 80054862019     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enganabound.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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