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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
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Original Articles

Numerical investigation of porous rib arrangement on heat transfer and entropy generation of nanofluid flow in an annulus using a two-phase mixture model

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Pages 1251-1273 | Received 18 Oct 2017, Accepted 06 Jun 2017, Published online: 25 Jul 2017

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