Investigation of heat transfer enhancement in a forward-facing contracting channel using FMWCNT nanofluids

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1321-1340

  Safaei, M R ^a   Togun, Hussein ^a,b   Vafai, K ^c   Kazi, S N ^a   Badarudin, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THI QAR   (Iraq)

^c University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACINGS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; VOLUME FRACTION;

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDIES; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; NANOPARTICLE VOLUME FRACTIONS; RECIRCULATION REGIONS; SHEAR-STRESS TRANSPORT; TURBULENT FORCED CONVECTION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84905966575     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2014.916101     Document Type: Article

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