Natural convection in shallow cavity filled with nanofluids taking into account the soret effect

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 260-269

  Oueslati, Fakhreddine S ^a   Bennacer, R ^b   Sammouda , Habib ^c  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antinatural flows; Nanofluid; Natural convection; Natural flows; Soret effect

Indexed keywords

MASS TRANSFER; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; PARALLEL FLOW; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ANTINATURAL FLOWS; CRITICAL RAYLEIGH NUMBER; HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES; NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; NATURAL FLOW; SORET EFFECTS; THERMAL CONVECTIONS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84864534101     PISSN: 14684349     EISSN: 17415233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2012.048255     Document Type: Article

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