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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
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Numerical simulation and optimization of turbulent nanofluids in a three-dimensional wavy channel

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Pages 1169-1185 | Received 07 Jul 2015, Accepted 28 Aug 2015, Published online: 23 Mar 2016

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