Entropy generation and natural convection of nanoparticle-water mixture (nanofluid) near water density inversion in an enclosure with various patterns of vertical wavy walls

DOI10.1016/j.amc.2013.10.054zbMath1354.76169MaRDI QIDQ505733

Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 26 January 2017

Published in: Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2013.10.054

zbMATH Keywords

natural convection; nanofluid; entropy generation; density inversion; non-Boussinesq; surface waviness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76R10: Free convection

82D80: Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles