TY - JOUR
TI - Effects of radiation on convection heat transfer of Cu-water nanofluid past a moving wedge
AU - Salama Faiza A
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2016
VL - 20
IS - 2
SP - 437
EP - 447
PT - Article
AB - Heat transfer characteristics of a two-dimensional steady hydrodynamic flow  of water-based copper(Cu) nanofluid over a moving wedge, taking into account  the effects of thermal radiation, have been investigated numerically. The  Rosseland approximation is used to describe the radiative heat flux in the  energy equation. The governing fundamental equations are first transformed  into a system of ordinary differential equations and solved numerically by  using the fourth-order Runge-kutta method with shooting technique. A  comparison with previously published work has been carried out and the  results are found to be in good agreement. The existence of unique and dual  solutions for self-similar equations of the flow and heat transfer are  analyzed numerically. The results indicate that there is strong dependence  of the thermal gradient at the surface of the wedge on both velocity ratio  parameter and thermal radiation.