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App1．Math．Mech．一Eng1．Ed．，34(3)，339—350(2013) Applied Mathematics DOI10．1007／s10483—013—1674—9 and Mechanics ⑥ShanghaiUniversityandSpringer—Verlag Berlin Heidelberg2013 (EnglishEdition) M ixed convection heattransferin horizontalchannelfilled with nanofluids TaoFAN(樊 涛)，一，HangXU (徐 航)，I．POP。 (1．StateKeyLaboratoryofOceanEngineering，SchoolofNavalArchitecture， OceanandCivilEngineering，ShanghaiJiaoTongUniversity，Shanghai200240，P．R．China； 2．Post—DoctoralResearchStation，JiangnanShipyardGroupCo．Ltd．， Shanghai201913，P．R．China； 3．DepartmentofMathematics，Babe~一BolyaiUniversity， C1uj．NapocaR一400084，Romania) Abstract Thelaminarfullydevelopednanofluidflow andheattransferiu ahorizonal channelareinvestigated．Highly accuratesolutionsforthetemperatureandnanoparticle concentrationdistributionsareobtained．TheeffectsoftheBrownian motion parameter Nb，thethermophoresisparameterⅣt，andtheLewisnumberLeonthetemperatureand nanoparticleconcentration distributionsarediscussed．Thecurrentanalysisshowsthat thenanoparticlescan improvetheheattransfercharacteristicssignificantlyforthisflow problem ． K ey words nanofluid flow，horizontalchannel，mixed convection heat transfer homotopyanalysismethod(HAM) ChineseLibrary Classification O414．1，O241．8，O357．4 2010MathematicsSubjectClassification 80A20，65H10，76N20 1 Introduction Mixedconvectionflowsorcombinedfreeandforcedconvectionflowsoccurinmanytech— nologicalandindustrialapplicationsinnature，e．g．，solarreceiversexposed towindcurrents， electronicdevicescooled by fans，nuclearreactorscooled during emergency shu