Effects of heat generation/absorption on stagnation point flow of nanofluid over a surface with convective boundary conditions

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4210-4223

  Alsaedi, A ^a   Awais, M ^b   Hayat, T ^b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Convective boundary conditions; Heat generation absorption; Nanofluid; Stagnation point flow

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT GENERATION; NANOFLUIDICS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRANDTL NUMBER; RATE CONSTANTS; THERMOPHORESIS;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HEAT GENERATION/ABSORPTION; INTERNAL HEAT GENERATION; NANOFLUIDS; POROUS MEDIUM; PROBLEM FORMULATION; STAGNATION-POINT FLOW; STRETCHED SURFACES; TEMPERATURE CONCENTRATION; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 84861656715     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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