Natural convection inside a C-shaped nanofluid-filled enclosure with localized heat sources

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1954-1978

  Mansour, M A ^a   Bakeir, M A ^a   Chamkha, A ^b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

C shaped enclosures; Nanofluid

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; COPPER; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; NATURAL CONVECTION; VOLUME FRACTION;

ASPECT-RATIO; C-SHAPED; C-SHAPED ENCLOSURE; CU NANO-PARTICLES; FINITE-DIFFERENCE METHODS; HEAT SOURCES; LOCALISED; NANOFLUIDS; RATE OF HEAT TRANSFER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

ENCLOSURES;

EID: 85006304148     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/HFF-06-2013-0198     Document Type: Article

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