Magnetohydrodynamic natural convection of nanofluids in u-shaped enclosures

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 473-487

  Ghasemi, B ^a  

^a SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; CONTROL VOLUMES; CONVECTION DIFFUSION; HARTMANN NUMBERS; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HORIZONTAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION; NANOFLUIDS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; POWER-LAW; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; U-SHAPED;

ASPECT RATIO; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NATURAL CONVECTION;

ENCLOSURES;

EID: 84873375251     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2013.742728     Document Type: Article

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