Investigation of buoyancy-driven flow and heat transfer in a trapezoidal cavity filled with water-Cu nanofluid

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 270-274

  Nasrin, Rehena ^a   Parvin, Salma ^a  

^a BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Free convection; Trapezoidal cavity; Water Cu nanofluid

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY DRIVEN FLOWS; CAVITY ASPECT RATIO; FINITE ELEMENT TECHNIQUES; GALERKIN; HORIZONTAL WALLS; HOT WALL; INCLINED WALLS; ISOTHERM PLOTS; NANO-FLUID; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; TRAPEZOIDAL CAVITY; TRAPEZOIDAL ENCLOSURE; WEIGHTED RESIDUALS;

ASPECT RATIO; ENCLOSURES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; THERMOELECTRICITY;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84856779362     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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