scholarly journals Thermal Boundary Layer in Flow due to an Exponentially Stretching Surface with an Exponentially Moving Free Stream

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishnendu Bhattacharyya ◽  
G. C. Layek

A numerical investigation is made to study the thermal boundary layer for flow of incompressible Newtonian fluid over an exponentially stretching sheet with an exponentially moving free stream. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into self-similar ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations in exponential forms. Then those are solved numerically by shooting technique using Runge-Kutta method. The study reveals that the momentum boundary layer thickness for this flow is considerably smaller than the linear stagnation point flow past a linearly stretching sheet. The momentum and thermal boundary layer thicknesses reduce when the velocity ratio parameter increases. For the temperature distribution, in addition to the heat transfer from the sheet, the heat absorption at the sheet also occurs in certain situations and both heat transfer and absorption increase with the velocity ratio parameter and the Prandtl number. The temperature inside the boundary layer significantly decreases with higher values of velocity ratio parameter and the Prandtl number.

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-185
Author(s):  
Golbert Aloliga ◽  
Yakubu Ibrahim Seini ◽  
Rabiu Musah

In this current paper, an investigation has been conducted on the magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow of non-Newtonian Casson fluids on magnetized sheet with an exponentially stretching sheet. The similarity approach has been used to transform the governing models for Casson fluid to ordinary differential equations. We presented numerical results for momentum, energy and concentration equation parameters. Effects of the magnetized sheet and varying all the emerged parameters on the flow of Casson fluid with respect to the friction between the fluid and the surface, temperature and concentration are presented in tables. As a result of the induced magnetization of the sheet, the thickness of the thermal boundary layer has been enhanced. This behaviour brings a considerable reduction to the heat transfer. The induced magnetized sheet has a similar influence on the skin friction, Nusselt number and the Sherwood number. We however proposed incorporation of magnetized surfaces in MHD flows for controlling the flow rate of the fluid and heat transfer characteristics.


1963 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Sutera ◽  
P. F. Maeder ◽  
J. Kestin

Experiments have given evidence of strong sensitivity of the stagnation-point heat transfer on cylinders to small changes in the intensity of free-stream turbulence. A similar effect on local heat-transfer rates to flat plates has been measured, but only when a favourable pressure gradient is present. In this work it is theorized that vorticity amplification by stretching is a possible, and perhaps the dominant, underlying mechanism responsible for this sensitivity. A mathematical model is presented for a steady, basically plane stagnation flow into which is steadily transported disturbed unidirectional vorticity having the only orientation susceptible to stretching. The resulting velocity and temperature fields in the stagnation-point boundary layer are analysed assuming the fluid to be incompressible and to have constant properties. By means of iterative procedures and electronic analogue computation an approximate solution to the full Navier-Stokes equations is achieved which indicates that amplification by stretching of vorticity of sufficiently large scale can occur. Such vorticity, present in the oncoming flow with a small intensity, can appear near the boundary layer with an amplified intensity and induce substantial three-dimensional effects therein. It is found that the thermal boundary layer is much more sensitive to the induced effects than the velocity boundary layer. Computations indicate that a certain amount of distributed vorticity in the oncoming flow causes the shear stress at the wall to increase by 5%, while the heat transfer there is augmented by 26% in a fluid with a Prandtl number of 0.74. Preliminary computations reveal that the sensitivity of the thermal boundary layer increases with Prandtl number.


2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1079-1093 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Singh ◽  
Shweta Agarwal

An Analysis has been carried out to study the boundary layer flow and heat transfer characteristics of second order fluid and second grade fluid with variable thermal conductivity and radiation over an exponentially stretching sheet in porous medium. The basic boundary layer equations governing the flow and heat transfer in prescribed surface temperature (PST) and prescribed heat flux (PHF) cases are in the form of partial differential equations. These equations are converted to non-linear ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations. Numerical solutions of the resulting boundary value problem are solved by using the fourth order Runge-Kutta method with shooting technique for various values of the physical parameters. The effect of variable thermal conductivity, porosity, Prandtl number, radiation parameter and viscoelastic parameters on velocity and temperature profiles (in PST and PHF cases) are analyzed and discussed through graphs. Numerical values of wall temperature gradient in PST case and wall temperature in PHF case are obtained and tabulated for various values of the governing parameters. In this study Prandtl number also treated as variable inside the boundary layer because it depends on thermal conductivity. The results are also verified by using finite difference method.


2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 791-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Mushtaq ◽  
Meraj Mustafa ◽  
Tasawar Hayat ◽  
Mahmood Rahi ◽  
Ahmed Alsaedi

This work theoretically examines the flow and heat transfer characteristics due to an exponentially stretching sheet in a Powell-Eyring fluid. Governing partial differential equations are nondimensionalized and transformed into non-similar forms. Explicit analytic expressions of velocity and temperature functions are developed by homotopy analysis method (HAM). The Numerical solutions are obtained by using shooting method with fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration technique. The fields are influence appreciably with the variation of embedding parameters. We noticed that the velocity ratio has a dual behaviour on the momentum boundary layer. On the other hand the thermal boundary layer thins when the velocity ratio is increased. The results indicate a significant increase in the velocity and a decrease in thermal boundary layer thickness with an intensification in the viscoelastic effects.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Imran Khan ◽  
Hakeem Ullah ◽  
Hussain AlSalman ◽  
Mehreen Fiza ◽  
Saeed Islam ◽  
...  

In this study, a new computing model is developed using the strength of feedforward neural networks with the Levenberg–Marquardt method- (NN-BLMM-) based backpropagation technique. It is used to find a solution for the nonlinear system obtained from the governing equations of Falkner–Skan with heat transfer (FSE-HT). Moreover, the partial differential equations (PDEs) for the unsteady squeezing flow of heat and mass transfer of the viscous fluid are converted into ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with the help of similarity transformation. A dataset for the proposed NN-BLMM-based model is generated in different scenarios by a variation of various embedding parameters, Deborah number ( β ) and Prandtl number (Pr). The training (TR), testing (TS), and validation (VD) of the NN-BLMM model are evaluated in the generated scenarios to compare the obtained results with the reference results. For the fluidic system convergence analysis, a number of metrics such as the mean square error (MSE), error histogram (EH), and regression (RG) plots are utilized for measuring the effectiveness and performance of the NN-BLMM infrastructure model. The experiments showed that comparisons between the results of the proposed model and the reference results match in terms of convergence up to E-05 to E-10. This proves the validity of the NN-BLMM model. Furthermore, the results demonstrated that there is an increase in the velocity profile and a decrease in the thickness of the thermal boundary layer by increasing the Deborah number. Also, the thickness of the thermal boundary layer is decreased by increasing the Prandtl number.


2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Shit ◽  
R. Haldar ◽  
A. Sinha

AbstractA non-linear analysis has been made to study the unsteady hydromagnetic boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium. The effects of thermal radiation in the boundary layer flow over a stretching sheet have also been investigated. The system of governing partial differential equations in the boundary layer have reduced to a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations using a suitable similarity transformation. The resulting non-linear coupled ordinary differential equations are solved numerically by using an implicit finite difference scheme. The numerical results concern with the axial velocity, micro-rotation component and temperature profiles as well as local skin-friction coefficient and the rate of heat transfer at the sheet. The study reveals that the unsteady parameter S has an increasing effect on the flow and heat transfer characteristics.


2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1 Part A) ◽  
pp. 289-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fazle Mabood ◽  
Waqar Khan ◽  
Muhammad Rashidi

In this article, the semi-analytical/numerical technique known as the homotopy analysis method (HAM) is employed to derive solutions for partial slip effects on the heat transfer of nanofluids over a stretching sheet. An accurate analytical solution is presented which depends on the Prandtl number, slip factor, Lewis number, Brownian motion number, and thermophoresis number. The variation of the reduced Nusselt and reduced Sherwood numbers with Brownian motion number, and thermophoresis number for various values Prandtl number, slip factor, Lewis number is presented in tabular and graphical forms. The results of the present article show the flow velocity and the surface shear stress on the stretching sheet and also reduced Nusselt number and reduced Sherwood number are strongly influenced by the slip parameter. It is found that hydrodynamic boundary layer decreases and thermal boundary layer increases with slip parameter. Comparison of the present analysis is made with the previously existing literature and an appreciable agreement in the values is observed for the limiting case.


2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-118
Author(s):  
A.N. Kashif ◽  
F. Salah ◽  
D.S. Sankar ◽  
M.D.N. Izyan ◽  
K.K. Viswanathan

Abstract The pressure gradient term plays a vital role in convective heat transfer in the boundary layer flow of a Maxwell fluid over a stretching sheet. The importance of the effects of the term can be monitored by developing Maxwell’s equation of momentum and energy with the pressure gradient term. To achieve this goal, an approximation technique, i.e. Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM) is employed with an application of algorithms of Adams Method (AM) and Gear Method (GM). With this approximation method we can study the effects of the pressure gradient (m), Deborah number (β), the ratio of the free stream velocity parameter to the stretching sheet parameter (ɛ) and Prandtl number (Pr) on both the momentum and thermal boundary layer thicknesses. The results have been compared in the absence and presence of the pressure gradient term m . It has an impact of thinning of the momentum and boundary layer thickness for non-zero values of the pressure gradient. The convergence of the system has been taken into account for the stretching sheet parameter ɛ. The result of the system indicates the significant thinning of the momentum and thermal boundary layer thickness in velocity and temperature profiles. On the other hand, some results show negative values of f '(η) and θ (η) which indicates the case of fluid cooling.


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