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Effect of nanofluid variable properties on natural convection in enclosures filled with a CuO–EG–Water nanofluid

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In this article, the authors focused on the study of natural convection heat transfer characteristics in a differentially-heated enclosure filled with a CuOeEGeWater nanofluid for different published variable thermal conductivity and variable viscosity models.
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This article is published in International Journal of Thermal Sciences.The article was published on 2010-12-01. It has received 207 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nanofluid & Natural convection.

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Simulation of nanofluid heat transfer in presence of magnetic field: A review

TL;DR: In this article, a review of previous publications about nanofluid hydrothermal treatment in the presence of magnetic field is presented, where Ferrohydrodynamic and Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) can take role in simulations.
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Nanofluid convective heat transfer using semi analytical and numerical approaches: A review

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a brief review of researches on nanofluid flow and heat transfer via semi-analytical and numerical methods and show that the Nusselt number is an increasing function of nanoparticle volume fraction.
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Investigation of nanofluid mixed convection in a shallow cavity using a two-phase mixture model

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of nanoparticle concentration, shear and buoyancy forces, and turbulence on flow and thermal behavior of nanofluid flow were studied, and the model predictions for very low solid volume fraction were found to be in good agreement with earlier numerical studies for a base fluid.
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A review on natural convective heat transfer of nanofluids

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review on the research progress on the natural convective heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids for both single and two-phase models is presented, where both experimental and theoretical studies are reviewed for natural convection of Nanofluid in different types of enclosures.
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Numerical heat transfer and fluid flow

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, chemical reaction, and other related processes that occur in engineering equipment, the natural environment, and living organisms.
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An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method

TL;DR: This chapter discusses the development of the Finite Volume Method for Diffusion Problems, a method for solving pressure-Velocity Coupling in Steady Flows problems, and its applications.
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Investigation on Convective Heat Transfer and Flow Features of Nanofluids

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

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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