Laminar Free Convection Over a Vertical Wavy Surface Embedded in a Porous Medium Saturated with a Nanofluid

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 423-435

  Mahdy, A ^a   Ahmed, Sameh E ^a  

^a SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Nanofluid; Natural convection; Porous medium; Wavy surface

Indexed keywords

FOURTH ORDER RUNGE-KUTTA METHODS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GRAPHICAL FORMS; LAMINAR-FREE CONVECTION; LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBER; NANO-FLUID; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; SHOOTING TECHNIQUE; VERTICAL WAVY SURFACES; WAVY SURFACE;

NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONVECTION; GRAPHICAL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED MEDIUM; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 83855165762     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9852-4     Document Type: Article

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