The objective of this paper is to examine the flow of a non-Newtonian Maxwell fluid induced by a permeable stretching sheet in motion within a porous medium. The research incorporates the Cattaneo-Christov heat flux model to study the heat transfer process. The utilization of the Cattaneo-Christov heat flux approach becomes relevant in scenarios involving materials with high thermal conductivity or during short time intervals. Consequently, the current investigation holds significant importance. It is assumed that the viscosity of the Maxwell fluid changes exponentially as the temperature changes. The modeling of the physical phenomena being investigated takes into account the effects of a magnetic field, thermal radiation, velocity, and thermal slip conditions. In this study, the viscous dissipation phenomenon is taken into account because it can have notable impacts on the temperature and viscosity of the fluid, and is known to play a crucial role in fluid flow phenomena. The equations developed to model fluid flow are transformed into nonlinear ordinary differential equations through the use of appropriate similarity transformations. The focus of the research revolves around investigating the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations accompanied by boundary conditions using the shooting technique. The findings are then showcased via tables and graphs and scrutinized in order to arrive at conclusions. Furthermore, the precision of the present findings was evaluated by contrasting the heat transfer rate with outcomes that were previously published. Based on the obtained outcomes, it can be concluded that both the Eckert number and thermal radiation have a comparable enhancing influence, whereas the thermal relaxation parameter and thermal slip parameter exhibit opposing effects.
7 May 2020 in Mathematical Problems in Engineering
The study of rotating nanofluid flows has a vital role in several applications such as in food processing, rotating machinery, cooling systems, and chemical fluid. The aims of the present work are to improve the thermophysical properties of convective flow and heat transfer for unsteady nanofluid past a moving rotating plate in the presence of ohmic, viscous dissipations, Brownian, and thermophoresis diffusion. The system is strained under the effect of strong magnetic field, and then the Hall current is considered. For this investigation, three different types of the nanoparticles (copper), (aluminium oxide), and (titanium dioxide) with various shapes (spherical, cylindrical, and brick) are considered, and water is used as a base nanofluid. The system governing equations are solved semianalytically using homotopy perturbation technique. In order to validate the present work, different comparisons are made under some special cases with previously published results and found an excellent agreement. It is observed that the shape of nanoparticles plays a substantial role to significantly determine the flow behaviour. Also, it can be found that the use of the cylindrical nanoparticle shape has better improvement for heat transfer rate compared with the other nanoparticle shapes.
This paper presents a numerical investigation of the flow of a non-Newtonian tangent hyperbolic nanofluid over a nonlinearly stretched surface, taking into account factors such as thermal radiation, prescribed surface temperature, and a chemical reaction mechanism. Furthermore, the analysis includes the consideration of both viscous dissipation and the influence of a magnetic field within a Darcy porous medium. A mathematical framework for addressing the issue, rooted in the principles of conserving momentum, energy, and mass. The MATHEMATICA tools were employed to apply the shooting technique in order to solve the modeled equations describing the temperature, velocity, and concentration fields of the proposed physical system. Graphs are used to illustrate how certain key parameters affect the profiles of concentration, velocity, and temperature. Data tables are utilized to display information pertaining to the local Nusselt number, local Sherwood number, and local skin friction coefficient. The present results have been confirmed through a comparison with previously published findings. This research holds significant importance as it focuses on the extensive utilization of tangent hyperbolic nanofluids in cooling electronic components that produce substantial heat during their operation. The observed pattern indicates that as the local Weisbsenberg number, magnetic number, local porous parameter, and power law index increase, there is a reduction in the boundary layer thickness. Conversely, in the instances of concentration and temperature distributions, an escalation in these parameters leads to an expansion of the boundary layer thickness.
5 October 2023 in Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics
Nanoparticles have the ability to increase the impact of convective heat transfer in the boundary layer region. An investigation is made to analysis of magnetohdrodynamic nanofluid flow with heat and mass transfer over a vertical cone in porous media under the impact of thermal radiations and chemical reaction. In addition, thermal radiations, Hall current, and viscous and Joule dissipations and chemical reaction effects are considered. Considered three different nanoparticles types namely copper, silver, and titanium dioxide with water as base fluid. The governing equations are transformed by similarity transformations into a set of non-linear ordinary differential equations involving variable coefficients. Two numerically approaches are used to solve the transformed boundary layer system Finite Difference Method (FDM) and Chebyshev-Galerkin Method (CGM). As stated in the present analysis, it is appropriate to address a number of physical mechanisms, including velocity, temperature and concentration, as well as closed-form skin friction/mass transfer/heat transfer coefficients. Different comparisons are done with previously published data in order to validate the current study under specific special circumstances, and it is determined that there is a very high degree of agreement. The main results indicated that as the Prandtl number increases, the temperature profile decreases, but it grows for higher values of the thermophoresis parameter, Brownian motion, and Eckert number. Moreover, higher Brownian motion values lead to a less prominent concentration profile. Consequently, this speeds up the cooling process and enhances the surface’s durability and strength.
Using magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the thermal energy and mass transport boundary layer flow parameters of Reiner–Philippoff fluid (non-Newtonian) are numerically investigated. In terms of energy and mass transfer, non-linear radiation, Cattaneo–Christov double diffusions, convective conditions at the surface, and the species reaction pertaining to activation energy are all addressed. The stated governing system of partial differential equations (PDEs) is drained into a non-linear differential system using appropriate similarity variables. Numerical solutions are found for the flow equations that have been determined. Two-dimensional charts are employed to demonstrate the flow field, temperature and species distributions, and rate of heat and mass transfers for the concerned parameters for both Newtonian and Reiner–Philippoff fluid examples. The stream line phenomenon is also mentioned in this paper. A table has also been utilized to illustrate the comparison with published results, which shows that the current numerical data are in good accord. The findings point to a new role for heat and mass transfer. According to the findings, increasing values of solutal and thermal relaxation time parameters diminish the associated mass and thermal energy layers. The current study has significant ramifications for chemical engineering systems.
The novelty and motivation of this research can be emphasized by examining how the heat transfer mechanism of a non-Newtonian Powell-Eyring fluid, which flows because of a stretched sheet, is affected by factors like viscous dissipation, the slip velocity phenomenon, and Joule heating. In addition, the investigation delves into the heat transfer behavior of the fluid flow when it comes into contact with a convectively heated stretched surface that is influenced by varying fluid properties. This analysis also takes into account the influence of changing fluid characteristics and the presence of magnetic field. The numerical solutions of modelled equations that governing the problem are detected using the shooting technique. Also, in order to confirm the validity of the present investigation, a proper comparison with certain published works as a particular case of the present model is presented, and a perfect agreement is noted. With the use of diagrams and tables, the flow problem’s effective parameters are thoroughly discussed. Likewise, through a tabular representation, the values of the local Nusselt number and the skin-friction coefficient are computed and analyzed. Many significant conclusions can be drawn from numerical results. Most importantly, the local Nusselt number rises monotonically with both the surface convection parameter and the slip velocity parameter, but the local skin-friction coefficient has the opposite trend. The results indicate that the nanofluid temperature is enhanced by factors such as the surface convection parameter, magnetic field, and viscous dissipation. On the other hand, the slip velocity phenomenon leads to the opposite effect.