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Mixed convection heat transfer in horizontal channel filled with nanofluids

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The laminar fully developed nanofluid flow and heat transfer in a horizonal channel are investigated. Highly accurate solutions for the temperature and nanoparticle concentration distributions are obtained. The effects of the Brownian motion parameter N b, the thermophoresis parameter N t, and the Lewis number Le on the temperature and nanoparticle concentration distributions are discussed. The current analysis shows that the nanoparticles can improve the heat transfer characteristics significantly for this flow problem.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, P. R. China

    Tao Fan  (樊 涛) & Hang Xu  (徐 航)

  2. Post-Doctoral Research Station, Jiangnan Shipyard Group Co. Ltd., Shanghai, 201913, P. R. China

    Tao Fan  (樊 涛)

  3. Department of Mathematics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, R-400084, Romania

    I. Pop

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10972136) and the Doctoral Fund for New Teachers of Higher Eduation of China (No. 20090073120014)

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Fan, T., Xu, H. & Pop, I. Mixed convection heat transfer in horizontal channel filled with nanofluids. Appl. Math. Mech.-Engl. Ed. 34, 339–350 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-013-1674-9

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