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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
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Numerical simulation and sensitivity analysis of effective parameters on natural convection and entropy generation in a wavy surface cavity filled with a nanofluid using RSM

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Pages 1157-1177 | Received 07 May 2016, Accepted 09 Aug 2016, Published online: 20 Oct 2016

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