A heatline analysis of natural convection in a square inclined enclosure filled with a CuO nanofluid under non-uniform wall heating condition

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 55, Issue 19-20, 2012, Pages 5076-5086

  Oztop, Hakan F ^a   Mobedi, Moghtada ^b   Abu Nada, Eiyad ^c,d   Pop, Ioan ^e  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^c KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^e BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Enclosure; Heatline; Nanofluid; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDES; ENCLOSURES; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; VISUALIZATION;

GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEATING CONDITIONS; HEATLINE; INCLINATION ANGLES; INCLINED ENCLOSURE; NANOFLUIDS; SQUARE CROSS SECTION; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84863534993     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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