MHD Free Convective Boundary Layer Flow of a Nanofluid past a Flat Vertical Plate with Newtonian Heating Boundary Condition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Uddin, Mohammed J ^a,c   Khan, Waqar A ^b   Ismail, Ahmed I ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^c AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW RATE; FRACTIONATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MASS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MHD FREE CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; NANOFLUIDICS; NEWTONIAN HEATING BOUNDARY CONDITION; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84869228616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049499     Document Type: Article

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