Numerical study of natural convection in a horizontal cylinder filled with water-based alumina nanofluid

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Meng, Xiangyin ^a   Li, Yan ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Nanofluid; Natural heat convection; OpenFOAM; Temperature dependent solver

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; BLENDING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); MESH GENERATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VOLUME FRACTION;

CFD SIMULATIONS; HORIZONTAL CYLINDERS; NANOFLUIDS; OPENFOAM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84925745860     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-0847-x     Document Type: Article

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