Numerical study of boundary layer flow and heat transfer of oldroyd-B nanofluid towards a stretching sheet

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Nadeem, Sohail ^a   Ul Haq, Rizwan ^a   Akbar, Noreen Sher ^a   Lee, Changhoon ^a   Khan, Zafar Hayat ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BROWNIAN MOTION; FLOW KINETICS; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; LEWIS NUMBER; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NANOFLUID; PRANDTL PARAMETER; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THERMOPHORESIS PARAMETER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LINEAR MODELS; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84892402449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069811     Document Type: Article

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