Numerical study of natural convection of a nanofluid in C-shaped enclosures

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 76-89

  Mahmoodi, Mostafa ^a   Hashemi, Seyed Mohammad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASHAN   (Iran)

^b K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

C shaped enclosure; Cold rib; Finite volume method; Nanofluid; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

C-SHAPED; COLD RIB; CU NANOPARTICLES; ENHANCEMENT OF HEAT TRANSFER; FINITE VOLUME; NANO-FLUID; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RATE OF HEAT TRANSFER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SIMPLER ALGORITHMS;

ASPECT RATIO; ENCLOSURES; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; VOLUME FRACTION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84857791946     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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