Scaling analysis for the investigation of slip mechanisms in nanofluids

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-15

  Savithiri, S ^a   Pattamatta, Arvind ^a   Das, Sarit K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN FORCES; CYLINDRICAL SHAPES; DRAG FORCES; GRAVITY FORCES; HEAT TRANSFER AUGMENTATION; MAGNUS FORCES; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; SCALING ANALYSIS; SLIP MECHANISM; TIME-SCALES;

DRAG; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GRAVITATION; NANOPARTICLES; NUSSELT NUMBER;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84863393056     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-471     Document Type: Article

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