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Natural Convection in a Porous Medium Saturated by Nanofluid
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Ghodeswar, Kaustubh
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Year and Degree
2010, Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Cleveland State University, Fenn College of Engineering.
Abstract
A boundary layer analysis is presented for the natural convection heat and mass transfer flow past along two different geometries i.e., a vertical cone and an isothermal sphere in a Non-Darcy porous medium saturated with a nanofluid. A co-ordinate transformation is used to transform the governing equations into non-dimensional non-similar boundary layer equations. These equations are then solved numerically using implicit finite difference method (Keller-box method). Numerical solutions for heat transfer rate, mass transfer rate and friction factor have been presented for parametric variations of the buoyancy ratio parameter N¬r, Brownian motion parameter Nb, thermophoresis parameter Nt and Lewis number Le. The dependency of the local friction factor, surface heat transfer rate (Nusselt number), and mass transfer rate (Sherwood number) on these parameters has been discussed.
Committee
Rama Subba Reddy Gorla, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Majid Rashidi, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Hanz Richter, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pages
68 p.
Subject Headings
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords
Nanofluid
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Natural Convection
;
Porous Medium
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Ghodeswar, K. (2010).
Natural Convection in a Porous Medium Saturated by Nanofluid
[Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1293169230
APA Style (7th edition)
Ghodeswar, Kaustubh.
Natural Convection in a Porous Medium Saturated by Nanofluid.
2010. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1293169230.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Ghodeswar, Kaustubh. "Natural Convection in a Porous Medium Saturated by Nanofluid." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1293169230
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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