The main goal of this paper is to investigate natural convective heat transfer and flow characteristics of non-Newtonian nanofluid streaming between two infinite vertical flat plates in the presence of magnetic field ...The main goal of this paper is to investigate natural convective heat transfer and flow characteristics of non-Newtonian nanofluid streaming between two infinite vertical flat plates in the presence of magnetic field and thermal radiation.Initially,a similarity transformation is used to convert momentum and energy conservation equations in partial differential forms into non-linear ordinary differential equations (ODE) applying meaningful boundary conditions.In order to obtain the non-linear ODEs analytically,Galerkin method (GM) is employed.Subsequently,the ODEs are also solved by a reliable numerical solution.In order to test the accuracy,precision and reliability of the analytical method,results of the analytical analysis are compared with the numerical results.With respect to the comparisons,fairly good compatibilities with insignificant errors are observed.Eventually,the impacts of effective parameters including magnetic and radiation parameters and nanofluid volume fraction on the velocity,skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number distributions are comprehensively described.Based on the results,it is revealed that with increasing the role of magnetic force,velocity profile,skin friction coefficient and thermal performance descend.Radiation parameter has insignificant influence on velocity profile while it obviously has augmentative and decreasing effects on skin friction and Nusselt number,respectively.展开更多
Two-dimensional boundary layer flow of an incompressible third grade nanofluid over a stretching surface is investigated.Influence of thermophoresis and Brownian motion is considered in the presence of Newtonian heati...Two-dimensional boundary layer flow of an incompressible third grade nanofluid over a stretching surface is investigated.Influence of thermophoresis and Brownian motion is considered in the presence of Newtonian heating and viscous dissipation.Governing nonlinear problems of velocity, temperature and nanoparticle concentration are solved via homotopic procedure.Convergence is examined graphically and numerically. Results of temperature and nanoparticle concentration are plotted and discussed for various values of material parameters, Prandtl number, Lewis number, Newtonian heating parameter, Eckert number and thermophoresis and Brownian motion parameters. Numerical computations are performed. The results show that the change in temperature and nanoparticle concentration distribution functions is similar when we use higher values of material parameters β1 andβ2. It is seen that the temperature and thermal boundary layer thickness are increasing functions of Newtonian heating parameter γ.An increase in thermophoresis and Brownian motion parameters tends to an enhancement in the temperature.展开更多
文摘The main goal of this paper is to investigate natural convective heat transfer and flow characteristics of non-Newtonian nanofluid streaming between two infinite vertical flat plates in the presence of magnetic field and thermal radiation.Initially,a similarity transformation is used to convert momentum and energy conservation equations in partial differential forms into non-linear ordinary differential equations (ODE) applying meaningful boundary conditions.In order to obtain the non-linear ODEs analytically,Galerkin method (GM) is employed.Subsequently,the ODEs are also solved by a reliable numerical solution.In order to test the accuracy,precision and reliability of the analytical method,results of the analytical analysis are compared with the numerical results.With respect to the comparisons,fairly good compatibilities with insignificant errors are observed.Eventually,the impacts of effective parameters including magnetic and radiation parameters and nanofluid volume fraction on the velocity,skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number distributions are comprehensively described.Based on the results,it is revealed that with increasing the role of magnetic force,velocity profile,skin friction coefficient and thermal performance descend.Radiation parameter has insignificant influence on velocity profile while it obviously has augmentative and decreasing effects on skin friction and Nusselt number,respectively.
基金funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdulaziz University (KAU), under Grant No. 37-130-35-HiCi
文摘Two-dimensional boundary layer flow of an incompressible third grade nanofluid over a stretching surface is investigated.Influence of thermophoresis and Brownian motion is considered in the presence of Newtonian heating and viscous dissipation.Governing nonlinear problems of velocity, temperature and nanoparticle concentration are solved via homotopic procedure.Convergence is examined graphically and numerically. Results of temperature and nanoparticle concentration are plotted and discussed for various values of material parameters, Prandtl number, Lewis number, Newtonian heating parameter, Eckert number and thermophoresis and Brownian motion parameters. Numerical computations are performed. The results show that the change in temperature and nanoparticle concentration distribution functions is similar when we use higher values of material parameters β1 andβ2. It is seen that the temperature and thermal boundary layer thickness are increasing functions of Newtonian heating parameter γ.An increase in thermophoresis and Brownian motion parameters tends to an enhancement in the temperature.