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Boundary-layer flow of nanofluids over a moving surface in a flowing fluid

Norfifah Bachok, +2 more
- 01 Sep 2010 - 
- Vol. 49, Iss: 9, pp 1663-1668
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In this paper, the steady boundary-layer flow of a nanofluid past a moving semi-infinite flat plate in a uniform free stream is investigated, where the plate is assumed to move in the same or opposite directions to the free stream.
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This article is published in International Journal of Thermal Sciences.The article was published on 2010-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 362 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nusselt number & Sherwood number.

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Boundary layer flow of a nanofluid past a stretching sheet with a convective boundary condition

Oluwole Daniel Makinde, +1 more
- 01 Jul 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the boundary layer flow induced in a nanofluid due to a linearly stretching sheet is studied numerically and the transport equations include the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis.
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Flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid over a nonlinearly stretching sheet: A numerical study

Puneet Rana, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2012 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used variational finite element method (FEM) with a local non-similar transformation to solve the non-linear governing equations with associated boundary conditions.
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Numerical Investigation of Hydromagnetic Hybrid Cu – Al2O3/Water Nanofluid Flow over a Permeable Stretching Sheet with Suction

S. P. Anjali Devi, +1 more
- 01 Aug 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, an emerging concept of hybrid nanofluid with a new improved model of its thermophysical properties is introduced in the present work, which has been employed for the enhancement of heat transfer rate.
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MHD boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid past a permeable stretching sheet with velocity, thermal and solutal slip boundary conditions

Wubshet Ibrahim, +1 more
- 20 Apr 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the boundary layer flow and heat transfer over a permeable stretching sheet due to a nanofluid with the effects of magnetic field, slip boundary condition and thermal radiation have been investigated.
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MHD stagnation point flow and heat transfer due to nanofluid towards a stretching sheet

Wubshet Ibrahim, +5 more
- 01 Jan 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of magnetic field on stagnation point flow and heat transfer due to nanofluid towards a stretching sheet was analyzed using Runge-Kutta fourth order method with shooting technique.
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Viscous Fluid Flow

Frank M. White
TL;DR: In this article, the stability of Laminar Boundary Layer Flow Appendices has been investigated in Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates of Incompressible Newtonian Fluids.
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Convective Transport in Nanofluids

Jacopo Buongiorno
- 01 Mar 2006 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered seven slip mechanisms that can produce a relative velocity between the nanoparticles and the base fluid and concluded that only Brownian diffusion and thermophoresis are important slip mechanisms in nanofluids.
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Investigation on Convective Heat Transfer and Flow Features of Nanofluids

Yimin Xuan, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2003 - 
TL;DR: In this article, an innovative new class of heat transfer fluids can be engineered by suspending metallic nanoparticles in conventional heat-transfer fluids, which are expected to exhibit high thermal conductivities compared to those of currently used heat transfer fluid, and they represent the best hope for enhancing heat transfer.
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Buoyancy-driven heat transfer enhancement in a two-dimensional enclosure utilizing nanofluids

K. Khanafer, +3 more
- 01 Sep 2003 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a model is developed to analyze heat transfer performance of nanofluids inside an enclosure taking into account the solid particle dispersion, where the transport equations are solved numerically using the finite-volume approach along with the alternating direct implicit procedure.
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Anomalous thermal conductivity enhancement in nanotube suspensions

Stephen U. S. Choi, +4 more
- 24 Sep 2001 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have produced nanotube-in-oil suspensions and measured their effective thermal conductivity, which is anomalously greater than theoretical predictions and is nonlinear with nanotubes loadings.
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Frequently Asked Questions (1)
Q1. What have the authors contributed in "Boundary layer flow over a moving surface in a nanofluid with suction or injection. abstract an analysis is performed to study the heat transfer characteristics of steady two-dimensional boundary layer flow past a moving permeable flat plate in a nanofluid. the effects of uniform suction and injection on the flow field and heat transfer characteristics are numerically" ?

The effects of uniform suction and injection on the flow field and heat transfer characteristics are numerically studied by using an implicit finite difference method.