Numerical and Series Solutions for Stagnation-Point Flow of Nanofluid over an Exponentially Stretching Sheet

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Mustafa, Meraj ^a   Farooq, Muhammad A ^a   Hayat, Tasawar ^b,c   Alsaedi, Ahmed ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT TRANSFER; KINEMATICS; NANOFLUIDICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARTICLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOTION; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84877315823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061859     Document Type: Article

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