Magnetohydrodynamic viscous fluid flow and heat transfer in a circular pipe under an externally applied constant

G Nagaraju1, Mahesh Garvandha2

  • 1Center for Research and Strategic Studies, Lebanese French University, Kurdistan Region, Erbil, Iraq.

Heliyon
|March 21, 2019
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