THE INFLUENCE OF HALL EFFECT AND INITIAL VELOCITY PROFILE ON MHD FLOW IN THE ENTRANCE REGION OF A PARALLEL PLATE CHANNEL

1967 ◽  
Author(s):  
William T. Snyder ◽  
Arsev H. Erasian
1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Gupta ◽  
V. K. Garg

It is found that even a 5 percent change in the velocity profile produces a 100 percent change in the critical Reynolds number for the stability of developing flow very close to the entrance of a two-dimensional channel.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. S. Lee ◽  
G. J. Hwang

A transient analysis on the onset of thermal instability in the thermal entrance region of a horizontal parallel plate channel, where the lower plate is heated isothermally, is presented. A novel time-dependent approach based on a three-dimensional linear stability theory is developed to determine the neutral stability position, where a disturbance neither grows nor decays with time. The range of parameters Pe=30, 40, 60, 80, and 100, and Pr=0.2, 0.7, 1.0, and 7.0 are covered in the study. One finds that increasing Prandtl number has a destabilizing effect on the flow for a fixed Peclet number along the streamwise direction. On the other hand, increasing Peclet number or Reynolds number tends to stabilize the flow. As the onset of thermal instability moves upstream, the critical Rayleigh number and the critical wave number are increased. The result shows a good agreement with the previous experimental investigations.


1973 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Hwang ◽  
K. C. Cheng

An investigation is carried out to determine the conditions marking the onset of longitudinal vortex rolls due to buoyant forces in the thermal entrance region of a horizontal parallel-plate channel where the lower plate is heated isothermally and the upper plate is cooled isothermally. Axial heat conduction is included in an analytical solution for the Graetz problem with fully developed laminar velocity profile. Linear-stability theory based on Boussinesq approximation is employed in the derivation of perturbation equations. An iterative procedure using high-order finite-difference approximation is applied to solve the perturbation equations and a comparison is made against the conventional second-order approximation. It is found that for Pr ≥ 0.7 the flow is more stable in the thermal entrance region than in the fully developed region, but the situation is just opposite for small Prandtl number, say Pr ≤ 0.2. Graphical results for the critical Rayleigh numbers and the corresponding disturbance wavenumbers are presented for the case of Pe → ∞ with Prandtl number as a parameter and the case of air (Pr = 0.7) with Peclet number as a parameter in the range of dimensionless axial distance from the entrance between x = 0.001 and 4 × 10−1.


Author(s):  
Devendra Kumar ◽  
B. Satyanarayana ◽  
Rajesh Kumar ◽  
Bholey Singh ◽  
R. K. Shrivastava

The present study deals with two layered MHD immiscible fluid flow through porous medium in presence of heat transfer through parallel plate channel. The fluids are incompressible, and flow is fully developed. The fluids are of different viscosities and thermal conductivities so flowing without mixing each other. Two different phases are accounted for study and are electrically conducting. Temperature of the walls of parallel plate channel is constant. Rheological properties of the immiscible fluids are constant in nature. The flow is governed by coupled partial differential equations which are converted to ordinary differential equations and exact solutions are obtained. The velocity profile and temperature distribution are evaluated and solved numerically for different heights and viscosity ratios for the two immiscible fluids. The effect of magnetic field parameter M and porosity parameter K is discussed for velocity profile and temperature distribution. Combined effects of porous medium and magnetic fields are accelerating the flow which, can be helpful in draining oil from oil wells.


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