Numerical solutions of mixed convection flow on a solid sphere embedded in a porous medium filled by a nanofluid containing gyrotactic microorganisms

• Main Authors: Leony Tham, Roslinda Nazar, Ioan Pop
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/9136/; http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/proceeding/aipcp/10.1063/1.4801180
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Kelantan

In this paper, the steady mixed convection boundary layer flow over a solid sphere with a constant surface temperature embedded in a porous medium saturated by a nanofluid containing both nanoparticles and gyrotactic microorganisms in a stream flowing vertically upwards for both cases of a heated an...