Natural convection in a square cavity containing a nanofluid and an adiabatic square block at the center

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 261-275

  Mahmoodi, Mostafa ^a   Sebdani, Saeed Mazrouei ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Finite volume method; Free convection; Nanofluid; Square body; Square cavity

Indexed keywords

CU NANOPARTICLES; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; NANO-FLUID; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PRESSURE FIELD; RATE OF HEAT TRANSFER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SIMPLER ALGORITHMS; SQUARE BODY; SQUARE CAVITY; THERMAL FIELD;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; VOLUME FRACTION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84861717593     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: 10963677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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