Buoyancy effects on MHD stagnation point flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid past a convectively heated stretching/shrinking sheet

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 526-533

  Makinde, O D ^a   Khan, W A ^b   Khan, Z H ^c  

^a CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Buoyancy force; Convective heating; MHD; Nanofluid; Stagnation point flow; Stretching sheet

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FORCES; CONVECTIVE HEATING; NANOFLUIDS; STAGNATION-POINT FLOW; STRETCHING SHEET;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; BUOYANCY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SKIN FRICTION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84876156603     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.03.049     Document Type: Article

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