Radiation Effects on Mixed Convection over a Wedge Embedded in a Porous Medium Filled with a Nanofluid

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 261-279

  Chamkha, Ali J ^a   Abbasbandy, S ^b   Rashad, A M ^c   Vajravelu, K ^d  

^a MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT   (Kuwait)

^b IMAM KHOMEINI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ASWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian diffusion; Keller box method; Mixed convection; Nanofluid; Porous media; Thermal radiation; Thermophoresis; Wedge

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN DIFFUSION; KELLER BOX METHOD; NANOFLUID; THERMAL RADIATIONS; WEDGE;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; HEAT RADIATION; LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER; MIXED CONVECTION; NANOFLUIDICS; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMOPHORESIS;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BROWNIAN MOTION; CONVECTION; DIFFUSION; LAMINAR FLOW; PARAMETERIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; STEADY FLOW; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 83055181239     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9843-5     Document Type: Article

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