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Analytical solution of natural convection flow of a nanofluid over a linearly stretching sheet in the presence of magnetic field

M.A.A. Hamad
- 01 Apr 2011 - 
- Vol. 38, Iss: 4, pp 487-492
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In this paper, the convective flow and heat transfer of an incompressible viscous nanofluid past a semi-infinite vertical stretching sheet in the presence of a magnetic field are examined.
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This article is published in International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer.The article was published on 2011-04-01. It has received 292 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nanofluid & Nusselt number.

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MHD free convection of Al2O3–water nanofluid considering thermal radiation: A numerical study

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Buoyancy effect on MHD flow of nanofluid over a stretching sheet in the presence of thermal radiation

TL;DR: In this paper, a similarity transformation is used to reduce the governing momentum and energy equations into non-linear ordinary differential equations, and the resulting differential equations with the appropriate boundary conditions are solved by shooting iteration technique together with fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration scheme.
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MHD flow and radiation heat transfer of nanofluids in porous media with variable surface heat flux and chemical reaction

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of variable surface heat flux and first-order chemical reaction on MHD flow and radiation heat transfer of nanofluids against a flat plate in porous medium were investigated.
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Activation energy impact in nonlinear radiative stagnation point flow of Cross nanofluid

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduced the concept of activation energy in mixed convective magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stagnation point flow towards a stretching surface and applied it to modeling and computations.
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Radiation effect on viscous flow of a nanofluid and heat transfer over a nonlinearly stretching sheet

TL;DR: This work studies the flow and heat transfer characteristics of a viscous nanofluid over a nonlinearly stretching sheet in the presence of thermal radiation, included in the energy equation, and variable wall temperature.
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