Numerical simulation of natural convection of nanofluids in a square cavity with several pairs of heaters and coolers (HACs) inside

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 362-376

  Garoosi, Faroogh ^a   Bagheri, Gholamhossein ^b   Talebi, Farhad ^a  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cooler; Design optimization; Heater; Nanofluid; Natural convection; Numerical simulation; Square cavity

Indexed keywords

COOLER; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; HEATER; NANOFLUIDS; SQUARE CAVITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING SYSTEMS; DESIGN; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECIFIC HEAT; VOLUME FRACTION; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84883853416     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.08.034     Document Type: Article

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