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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
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Role of various moving walls on entropy generation during mixed convection within entrapped porous triangular cavities

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Pages 423-447 | Received 08 Aug 2016, Accepted 28 Nov 2016, Published online: 09 Mar 2017

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