Natural convection of nanoparticle-water mixture near its density inversion in a rectangular enclosure

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 131-137

  Rahimi, M ^a   Ranjbar, A A ^a   Hosseini, M J ^a   Abdollahzadeh, M ^a  

^a BABOL NOSHIRVANI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Grashof number; Nanofluid; Non Boussinesq; Nusselt number

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ; DENSITY INVERSION; DENSITY MAXIMA; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HOMOGENOUS MODELS; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; NANO-FLUID; NON-BOUSSINESQ; RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURES; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT DENSITY; VELOCITY VECTORS;

ENCLOSURES; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GRASHOF NUMBER; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84855357629     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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