Numerical solution of non-Newtonian nanofluid flow over a stretching sheet

Applied Nanoscience (Switzerland)

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 625-631

  Nadeem, S ^a   Haq, Rizwan Ul ^a   Khan, Z H ^b  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Jeffrey fluid model; Nanofluid flow; Numerical solution; Stretching sheet; Thermophoresis

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THERMOPHORESIS;

DECREASING FUNCTIONS; INCREASING FUNCTIONS; JEFFREY FLUID; NANOFLUID FLOW; NONLINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SIMILARITY TRANSFORMATION; STRETCHING SHEET;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 84893851662     PISSN: 21905509     EISSN: 21905517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13204-013-0235-8     Document Type: Article

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