Peristaltic flow of a Phan-Thien-Tanner nanofluid in a diverging tube

Heat Transfer - Asian Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-22

  Akbar, Noreen Sher ^a   Nadeem, S ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Diverging tube; HPM solutions; Nanofluid; Peristaltic flow; Phan Thien Tanner

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL COORDINATES; DIVERGING TUBE; EXACT SOLUTION; FRAME OF REFERENCE; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HOMOTOPY PERTURBATION METHOD; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; NANO-FLUID; PERISTALTIC FLOW; PHAN-THIEN-TANNER; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRESSURE RISE; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; VELOCITY PROFILES;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; GRASHOF NUMBER; NANOPARTICLES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THERMOPHORESIS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 83955161694     PISSN: 10992871     EISSN: 15231496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/htj.20386     Document Type: Article

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