Boundary-layer stagnation-point flow toward a stretching surface in a porous nanofluid-filled medium

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 147-153

  Khan, W A ^a,c   Pop I , ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^d Faculty of Mathematics   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; VELOCITY;

GOVERNING PARAMETERS; LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBER; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; STAGNATION POINTS; STAGNATION-POINT FLOW; STRETCHING SURFACE; TABULAR REPRESENTATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84857855083     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.T3680     Document Type: Article

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