Stagnation-point flow over a stretching/shrinking sheet in a nanofluid

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-10

  Bachok, Norfifah ^a   Ishak, Anuar ^b   Pop, Ioan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Dual solutions; Heat transfer; Nanofluids; Stagnation point flow; Stretching shrinking sheet

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT FLUIDS; DUAL SOLUTIONS; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; SHRINKING SHEET; SKIN FRICTION COEFFICIENT; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; STAGNATION POINTS; STAGNATION-POINT FLOW; STRETCHING SHEET; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TITANIA; WATER-BASED FLUIDS;

ALUMINA; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; FRICTION; HEAT TRANSFER; NUSSELT NUMBER; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84856066520     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-623     Document Type: Article

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