S1 attractor bifurcation analysis for an electrically conducting fluid flow between two rotating cylinders

2019 ◽  
Vol 392 ◽  
pp. 17-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruikuan Liu ◽  
Quan Wang

The effect of electrically conducting fluid flow in an inclined tube with permeable walls and having multiple stenosis through porous medium was studied. The Homotopy Perturbation Method is used to calculate the phenomena of Nanoparticle and temperature of the coupled equations. The solutions have been analyzed on the basis of pressure drop, resistance to the flow and wall shear stress. It is identified that the heights of the stenosis, Thermophoresis parameter, local temperature Grashof number, local nanoparticle Grashof number, Magnetic parameter increases with the resistance to the flow and Brownian motion number, permeability constant decreases with resistance to the flow. It is remarkable that, the resistance to the flow is found increasing for the values of inclination and decreases for the values of . The observation also notes that, the shear stress at the wall is found increasing with the height of the stenosis, Inclination, Thermophoresis parameter, local nanoparticle Grashof number and Permeability constant, but found decreasing with Brownian motion parameter and Magnetic Parameter


2014 ◽  
Vol 92 (11) ◽  
pp. 1387-1396 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.C. Umavathi ◽  
A.J. Chamkha

In this study, the effects of viscous and Ohmic dissipation in steady, laminar, mixed, convection heat transfer for an electrically conducting fluid flowing through a vertical channel is investigated in both aiding and opposing buoyancy situations. The plates exchange heat with an external fluid. Both conditions of equal and different reference temperatures of the external fluid are considered. First, the simpler cases of either negligible Brinkman number or negligible Grashof number are addressed with the help of analytical solutions. The combined effects of buoyancy forces and viscous dissipation are analyzed using a perturbation series method valid for small values of the perturbation parameter. To relax the conditions on the perturbation parameter, the governing equations are also evaluated numerically by a shooting technique that uses the classical explicit Runge–Kutta method of four slopes as an integration scheme and the Newton–Raphson method as a correction scheme. In the examined cases of velocity and temperature fields, the Nusselt numbers at both the walls and the average velocity are explored. It is found that the velocity profiles for an open circuit (E > 0 or E < 0) lie in between the short circuit (E = 0). The graphical results illustrating the effects of various parameters on the flow as well as the average velocity and Nusselt numbers are presented for open and short circuits. In the absence of electric field load parameter and Hartmann number, the results agree with Zanchini (Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 41, 3949 (1998)). Further, the analytical and numerical solutions agree very well for small values of the perturbation parameter.


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