Viscous flow due to a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in a nanofluid

Sains Malaysiana

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1359-1367

  Arifin, Norihan Md ^a   Nazar, Roslinda ^b   Pop, Ioan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Heat transfer; Nanofluid; Stagnation point flow; Stretching shrinking sheet

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; COPPER; HEAT TRANSFER; PERMEABILITY; SILVER; STAGNATION FLOW; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 81455136070     PISSN: 01266039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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