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Natural Convection in a Non-Darcy Porous Cavity Filled with Cu–Water Nanofluid Using the Characteristic-Based Split Procedure in Finite-Element Method

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Pages 224-247 | Received 22 Aug 2013, Accepted 17 Apr 2014, Published online: 20 Oct 2014

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