Natural convection of nanofluid over vertical plate embedded in porous medium: Prescribed surface heat flux

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition)

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 669-686

  Noghrehabadi, A ^a   Behseresht, A ^a   Ghalambaz, M ^a  

^a SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

nanofluid; natural convection; porous medium; surface heat flux; surface nanoparticle flux

Indexed keywords

HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; NON-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84878986191     PISSN: 02534827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10483-013-1699-6     Document Type: Article

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