Mixed convection flows in a square lid-driven cavity with heat source at the bottom utilising nanofluid

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-110

  Mansour, M A ^a   Ahmed, Sameh E ^b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Finite volume method; Heat source; Mixed convection; Nanofluid

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WALL; CONVECTION COOLING; COOLING PERFORMANCE; FINITE VOLUME APPROACH; GOVERNING PARAMETERS; HEAT SOURCES; LID-DRIVEN CAVITIES; MIXED CONVECTION FLOW; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MIXED CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84855249278     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: 1939019X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20533     Document Type: Article

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