Heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids in a lid-driven square enclosure

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 973-991

  Rahman, M M ^a   Billah, M M ^b   Hasanuzzaman, M ^c   Saidur, R ^c   Rahim, N A ^c  

^a BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^b AHSANULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CONSTANT SPEED; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; FLUID TEMPERATURES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HORIZONTAL WALLS; MIXED CONVECTION FLOW; NANOFLUIDS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; SQUARE ENCLOSURES; THERMAL FIELD; TRANSPORT EQUATION; VERTICAL WALL;

COPPER; ENCLOSURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MIXED CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84867817826     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2012.715983     Document Type: Article

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