Natural-convection heat and mass transfer from a vertical cone in porous media filled with nanofluids using the practical ranges of nanofluids thermo-physical properties

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 447-452

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

^a SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Nanofluids; Natural convection; Porous media; Similarity solution; Thermophoresis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894351123     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2013.08.028     Document Type: Article

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