Numerical investigation of natural convection heat transfer of nanofluids in a Γ shaped cavity

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 312-325

  Dehnavi, Resam ^a   Rezvani, Abdollah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOHAGHEGH ARDABILI   (Iran)

^b Imam Khomeini University   (Iran)

Author keywords

Finite volume method; Grashf number; Nanoparticle; Nusselt number

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL COMPRESSIBILITY; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; ENERGY EQUATION; GRASHF NUMBER; HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW; HEATED WALL; MEAN DIAMETER; MOMENTUM EQUATION; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE DIAMETER; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; NAVIER STOKES; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

ENCLOSURES; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84861859735     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: 10963677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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