Forced Convection Heat Transfer of Nanofluids in a Porous Channel

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 401-413

  Maghrebi, M J ^a   Nazari, M ^b   Armaghani, T ^b  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^b SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Nusselt number; Particle migration; Thermophoresis

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN DIFFUSION; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; DIFFUSIVITY RATIO; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LEWIS NUMBERS; LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBER; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; PARTICLE MIGRATION; POROUS CHANNEL; POROUS MEDIUM; RESEARCH TOPICS; SCHMIDT NUMBERS; SOLID PHASIS; STRAIGHT CHANNEL; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS; VOLUME FRACTION DISTRIBUTION;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FORCED CONVECTION; MIXED CONVECTION; NANOPARTICLES; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMOPHORESIS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

CHANNEL FLOW; DIFFUSIVITY; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; POROUS MEDIUM; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 84862138418     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-9959-2     Document Type: Article

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