scholarly journals Second Law Analysis of Dissipative Nanofluid Flow over a Curved Surface in the Presence of Lorentz Force: Utilization of the Chebyshev–Gauss–Lobatto Spectral Method

Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Afridi ◽  
Muhammad Qasim ◽  
Abderrahim Wakif ◽  
Abid Hussanan

The primary objective of the present work is to study the effects of heat transfer and entropy production in a nanofluid flow over a curved surface. The influences of Lorentz force and magnetic heating caused by the applied uniform magnetic field and energy dissipation by virtue of frictional heating are considered in the problem formulation. The effects of variable thermal conductivity are also encountered in the present model. The dimensional governing equations are reduced to dimensionless form by introducing the similarity transformations. The dimensionless equations are solved numerically by using the Chebyshev–Gauss–Lobatto spectral method (CGLSM). The rate of increase/increase in the local Nusselt number and skin friction coefficient are estimated by using a linear regression model. The expression for dimensionless entropy production is computed by employing the solutions obtained from dimensionless momentum and energy equations. Various graphs are plotted in order to examine the effects of physical flow parameters on velocity, temperature, and entropy production. The increase in skin friction coefficient with magnetic parameter is high for nanofluid containing copper nanoparticles as compared to silver nanoparticles. The analysis reveals that velocity, temperature, and entropy generation decrease with the rising value of dimensionless radius of curvature. Comparative analysis also reveals that the entropy generation during the flow of nanofluid containing copper nanoparticles is greater than that of containing silver nanoparticles.

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 4507-4530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ijaz Khan ◽  
Salman Ahmad ◽  
Tasawar Hayat ◽  
M. Waleed Ahmad Khan ◽  
Ahmed Alsaedi

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address entropy generation in flow of thixotropic nonlinear radiative nanoliquid over a variable stretching surface with impacts of inclined magnetic field, Joule heating, viscous dissipation, heat source/sink and chemical reaction. Characteristics of nanofluid are described by Brownian motion and thermophoresis effect. At surface of the sheet zero mass flux and convective boundary condition are considered. Design/methodology/approach Considered flow problem is mathematically modeled and the governing system of partial differential equations is transformed into ordinary ones by using suitable transformation. The transformed ordinary differential equations system is figure out by homotopy algorithm. Outcomes of pertinent flow variables on entropy generation, skin friction, concentration, temperature, velocity, Bejan, Sherwood and Nusselts numbers are examined in graphs. Major outcomes are concluded in final section. Findings Velocity profile increased versus higher estimation of material and wall thickness parameter while it decays through larger Hartmann number. Furthermore, skin friction coefficient upsurges subject to higher values of Hartmann number and magnitude of skin friction coefficient decays via materials parameters. Thermal field is an increasing function of Hartmann number, radiation parameter, thermophoresis parameter and Eckert number. Originality/value The authors have discussed entropy generation in flow of thixotropic nanofluid over a variable thicked surface. No such consideration is yet published in the literature.


2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahir Shah ◽  
Saeed Islam ◽  
Hamza Ayaz ◽  
Saima Khan

The present research aims to examine the micropolar nanofluid flow of Casson fluid between two parallel plates in a rotating system with effects of thermal radiation. The influence of Hall current on the micropolar nanofluids have been taken into account. The fundamental leading equations are transformed to a system of nonlinear differential equations using appropriate similarity variables. An optimal and numerical tactic is used to get the solution of the problem. The convergence and comparison have been shown numerically. The impact of the Hall current, Brownian movement, and thermophoresis phenomena of Casson nanofluid have been mostly concentrated in this investigation. It is found that amassed Hall impact decreases the operative conductivity which intends to increase the velocity field. The temperature field enhances with larger values of Brownian motion thermophoresis effect. The impacts of the Skin friction coefficient, heat flux, and mass flux have been deliberate. The skin friction coefficient is observed to be larger for k=0, as compared to the case of k=0.5. Furthermore, for conception and visual demonstration, the embedded parameters have been deliberated graphically.


2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 2057-2067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rahimi-Gorji ◽  
Oveis Pourmehran ◽  
Mofid Gorji-Bandpy ◽  
Davood Ganji

This paper presents a thermal and flow analysis of an unsteady squeezing nanofluid flow and heat transfer using nanofluid based on Brinkman model in presence of variable magnetic field. Galerkin method is used to solve the non-linear differential equations governing the problem. Squeezing flow between parallel plates is very applicable in the many industries and it means that one or both of the parallel plates have vacillation. The effects of active parameters such as the Hartman number, squeeze number, and heat source parameter are discussed. Results for temperature distribution and velocity profile, Nusselt number, and skin friction coefficient by Galerkin method are presented. As can be seen in results, the values of Nusselt number and skin friction coefficient for CuO is better than Al2O3. Also, according to figures, as nanofluid volume fraction increases, Nusselt number increases and skin friction coefficient decreases, increase in the Hartman number results in an increase in velocity and temperature profiles and an increase in squeeze number can be associated with the decrease in the velocity. <br><br><font color="red"><b> This article has been corrected. Link to the correction <u><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/TSCI171204246E">10.2298/TSCI171204246E</a><u></b></font>


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 2146-2174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabhugouda Mallanagouda Patil ◽  
S.H. Doddagoudar ◽  
P.S. Hiremath

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the surface roughness effects on mixed convection nanofluid flow with liquid hydrogen/liquid nitrogen diffusion. Design/methodology/approach The small parameter (α) is considered along with the frequency parameter n to study the surface roughness. The non-similar transformations are used to reduce the dimensional non-linear partial differential equations into dimensionless form, and then, the resulting equations are solved with the help of Newton’s Quasilinearization technique and the finite difference scheme. Findings The impacts of several dimensionless parameters such as Brownian diffusion parameter (Nb), thermophoresis parameter (Nt), small parameter (α), etc., are analyzed over various profiles as well as gradients. Also, the investigation is carried out for in presence and absence of nanoparticles. The influence of surface roughness is sinusoidal in nature and is more significant near the origin in case of skin-friction coefficient. The addition of nanoparticles enhances the skin-friction coefficient and reduces the Nusselt number, while its effects are not noticeable in case of mass transfer rates. The presence of suction/blowing, respectively, enhances/decreases the Sherwood number pertaining to the liquid hydrogen. Practical implications The results of the present analysis are expected to be useful for the design engineers of polymer industries in manufacturing good quality polymer sheets. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, no such investigation has been carried out in the literature.


2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
K. SARITHA ◽  
S. PALANIAMMAL

MHD viscous nanofluid flow with viscous dissipation and thermal radiation in the presence of a temperature gradient dependent heat sink is analyzed. Hence, this work mainly deals nano fluids with nanoparticles Cu, Ag, Al, Al2O3 and TiO2 and with base fluids’ water and kerosene. Prescribed heat flux boundary condition is employed on the porous surface. Suitable similarity transformations are introduced for converting nonlinear partial differential equations into the nonlinear ordinary differential equations and then solved by analytically. The influence of various physical parameters over the velocity and temperature of nanofluids Cu-water and Cu-kerosene are examined by using graphs. Skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number of various nanofluids tabulated and analyzed. It is found that skin friction coefficient and heat transfer rate of kerosene based nanofluid is higher than the water based nanofluid in the presence of considered physical effects.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
M. Irfan ◽  
M. Asif Farooq ◽  
T. Iqra ◽  
A. Mushtaq ◽  
Z. H. Shamsi

We study constant and variable fluid properties together to investigate their effect on MHD Powell–Eyring nanofluid flow with thermal radiation and heat generation over a variable thickness sheet. The similarity variables assist in having ordinary differential equations acquired from partial differential equations (PDEs). A novel numerical procedure, the simplified finite difference method (SFDM), is developed to calculate the physical solution. The SFDM described here is simple, efficient, and accurate. To highlight its accuracy, results of the SFDM are compared with the literature. The results obtained from the SFDM are compared with the published results from the literature. This gives a good agreed solution with each other. The velocity, temperature, and concentration distributions, when drawn at the same time for constant and variable physical features, are observed to be affected against incremental values of the flow variables. Furthermore, the impact of contributing flow variables on the skin friction coefficient (drag on the wall) and local Nusselt (heat transfer rate on the wall) and Sherwood numbers (mass transfer on the wall) is illustrated by data distributed in tables. The nondimensional skin friction coefficient experiences higher values for constant flow regimes especially in comparison with changing flow features.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seemab Bashir ◽  
Muhammad Ramzan ◽  
Jae Dong Chung ◽  
Yu-Ming Chu ◽  
Seifedine Kadry

AbstractThe current study analyzes the effects of modified Fourier and Fick's theories on the Carreau-Yasuda nanofluid flow over a stretched surface accompanying activation energy with binary chemical reaction. Mechanism of heat transfer is observed in the occurrence of heat source/sink and Newtonian heating. The induced magnetic field is incorporated to boost the electric conductivity of nanofluid. The formulation of the model consists of nonlinear coupled partial differential equations that are transmuted into coupled ordinary differential equations with high nonlinearity by applying boundary layer approximation. The numerical solution of this coupled system is carried out by implementing the MATLAB solver bvp4c package. Also, to verify the accuracy of the numerical scheme grid-free analysis for the Nusselt number is presented. The influence of different parameters, for example, reciprocal magnetic Prandtl number, stretching ratio parameter, Brownian motion, thermophoresis, and Schmidt number on the physical quantities like velocity, temperature distribution, and concentration distribution are addressed with graphs. The Skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number for different parameters are estimated through Tables. The analysis shows that the concentration of nanoparticles increases on increasing the chemical reaction with activation energy and also Brownian motion efficiency and thermophoresis parameter increases the nanoparticle concentration. Opposite behavior of velocity profile and the Skin friction coefficient is observed for increasing the stretching ratio parameter. In order to validate the present results, a comparison with previously published results is presented. Also, Factors of thermal and solutal relaxation time effectively contribute to optimizing the process of stretchable surface chilling, which is important in many industrial applications.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 01-13
Author(s):  
M.H.A. Kamal ◽  
A. Ali ◽  
Y.J. Lim ◽  
N.A. Rawi ◽  
S. Shafie

The unsteady viscous nanofluid flow near a three-dimensional stagnation point was studied numerically under microgravity environment. g-Jitter is one of the effects occurs under microgravity environment that producing a fluctuating gravitational field. Three different types of nanoparticles were induced in the study that is copper (Cu), alumina (Al2O3), and titania (TiO2) which then produce a water-based typed of nanofluid. In addition, different shape of nanoparticle was applied on the study in analyzing the performance of each types of nanoparticle. The fluid system was then mathematically formulated into a system of partial differential equation based on physical law and principle such as conservation of mass, Newton’s second law and conservation of energy. The system of equation then undergoes semi-similar transformation technique in reducing the complexity of the problem into non dimensionless form. Keller box method was applied into the dimensionless system of equations in solving the problem numerically. The problem was analyzed in term of velocity and temperature profiles together with skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number. The results shown that temperature profile, skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number were increase while velocity profile decreased as nanoparticle volume fraction decreased. The results indicated that, the needle-shaped nanoparticles give the highest enhancement on the heat transfer of the nanofluid compared to sphere and disk-shaped nanoparticles with more than 14% significant different. In addition,  alumina hold the highest velocity profile while copper hold the lowest velocity profile.


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