Natural convective boundary layer flow of a nanofluid past a convectively heated vertical plate

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-90

  Aziz, A ^a   Khan, W A ^b  

^a GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Convective boundary condition; Nanofluid; Natural convection; Reduced Nusselt number; Reduced Sherwood number; Vertical plate

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; ENGINEERING PRACTICES; HEATED VERTICAL PLATES; LAYER FLOW; LEWIS NUMBERS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NANO-FLUID; NATURAL CONVECTIVE FLOW; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; NUMERICAL DATA; REDUCED SHERWOOD NUMBER; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; SIMILARITY ANALYSIS; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; STANDARD ERRORS; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TRANSPORT MODELS; VERTICAL PLATE;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMOPHORESIS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 81255127336     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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