Radiation effect on viscous flow of a nanofluid and heat transfer over a nonlinearly stretching sheet

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hady, Fekry M ^a   Ibrahim, Fouad S ^a,c   Abdel Gaied, Sahar M ^b   Eid, Mohamed R ^b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b NEW VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Nanofluid; Nonlinearly stretching surface; Thermal radiation; Viscous dissipation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; HEAT RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VISCOUS FLOW;

NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE VOLUME FRACTIONS; NON-LINEARLY STRETCHING SHEETS; NON-LINEARLY STRETCHING SURFACES; NONLINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; SIMILARITY TRANSFORMATION; VARIABLE WALL TEMPERATURE; VISCOUS DISSIPATION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84860674436     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-229     Document Type: Article

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