An analytical study on entropy generation of nanofluids over a flat plate

Alexandria Engineering Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 595-604

  Malvandi, A ^a   Ganji, D D ^b   Hedayati, F ^c   Yousefi Rad, E ^d  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b BABOL NOSHIRVANI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Entropy generation; HPM; Nanofluid; Similarity solution; VIM

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NANOFLUIDICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CONSTANT WALL TEMPERATURE; ENTROPY GENERATION; HOMOTOPY PERTURBATION METHOD (HPM); NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE VOLUME FRACTIONS; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; VARIATIONAL ITERATION METHOD;

ENTROPY;

EID: 84889641913     PISSN: 11100168     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aej.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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