Conjugate heat transfer of laminar mixed convection of a nanofluid through an inclined tube with circumferentially non-uniform heating

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Allahyari, Shahriar ^a   Behzadmehr, Amin ^a   Sarvari, Seyed Masoud Hosseini ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SISTAN AND BALUCHESTAN   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; HEAT CONDUCTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MIXED CONVECTION; NANOPARTICLES; SHEAR STRESS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VOLUME FRACTION; HEAT TRANSFER; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONDUCTION MECHANISM; CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; NANOPARTICLE VOLUME FRACTIONS; NONUNIFORM HEATING; THERMAL BEHAVIOURS; THERMAL PARAMETERS; TWO-PHASE MIXTURE MODELS; COPPER TUBES; INCLINED TUBES; MEAN DIAMETER; NANO-FLUID; RICHARDSON NUMBER; TUBE WALLS; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84255182681     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-360     Document Type: Article

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