Numerical solutions for the effects of unsteadiness and power-law parameter on non-Newtonian magnetohydrodynamics of nanofluid past a stretching sheet with gyrotactic microorganisms

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Talha ◽  
M. Osman Gani ◽  
M. Ferdows
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1791-1800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanhai Lin ◽  
Liancun Zheng ◽  
Botong Li ◽  
Xinxin Zhang

This paper presents an investigation on the MHD thin film flow and heat transfer of a power law fluid over an unsteady stretching sheet. The effects of power law viscosity on a temperature field are taken into account with a modified Fourier?s law Proposed by Zheng by assuming that the temperature field is similar to the velocity field. The governing equations are reduced to a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The numerical solutions are obtained by using the shooting method coupled with the Runge-Kutta method. The influence of the Hartmann number, the power law exponent, the unsteadiness parameter, the thickness parameter and the generalized Prandtl number on the velocity and temperature fields are presented graphically and analyzed. Moreover, the critical formula for parameters are derived which indicated that the magnetic field has no effect on the critical value.


2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (29) ◽  
pp. 1250146 ◽  
Author(s):  
BHASKAR SEN GUPTA ◽  
SHANKAR P. DAS

The renormalized dynamics described by the equations of nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics (NFH) treated at one loop order gives rise to the basic model of the mode coupling theory (MCT). We investigate here by analyzing the density correlation function, a crucial prediction of ideal MCT, namely the validity of the multi step relaxation scenario. The equilibrium density correlation function is calculated here from the direct solutions of NFH equations for a hard sphere system. We make first detailed investigation for the robustness of the correlation functions obtained from the numerical solutions by varying the size of the grid. For an optimum choice of grid size we analyze the decay of the density correlation function to identify the multi-step relaxation process. Weak signatures of two step power law relaxation is seen with exponents which do not match predictions from the one loop MCT. For the final relaxation stretched exponential (KWW) behavior is seen and the relaxation time grows with increase of density. But apparent power law divergences indicate a critical packing fraction much higher than the corresponding MCT predictions for a hard sphere fluid.


2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai-Long Hsiao

A magnetic hydrodynamic (MHD) of an incompressible viscoelastic fluid over a stretching sheet with electric and magnetic dissipation and nonuniform heat source/sink has been studied. The buoyant effect and the electric numberE1couple with magnetic parameterMto represent the dominance of the electric and magnetic effects, and adding the specific item of nonuniform heat source/sink is presented in governing equations which are the main contribution of this study. The similarity transformation, the finite-difference method, Newton method, and Gauss elimination method have been used to analyze the present problem. The numerical solutions of the flow velocity distributions, temperature profiles, and the important wall unknown values off''(0)andθ'(0)have been carried out. The parameter Pr,E1, orEccan increase the heat transfer effects, but the parameterMorA*may decrease the heat transfer effects.


2011 ◽  
Vol 52-54 ◽  
pp. 1895-1900
Author(s):  
Jing Zhu ◽  
Lian Cun Zheng ◽  
Xue Hui Chen

A similarity analysis is performed for a steady laminar boundary layer stagnation-point flow of an electrically conducting fluid in a porous medium subject to a transverse non-uniform magnetic field past a non-linear stretching sheet. A scaling group of transformations is applied to get the invariants. Using the invariants, a third order ordinary differential equation corresponding to the momentum is obtained. We show the existence and uniqueness of convex and concave solutions for the power law exponent, according to the values of magnetic parameter, permeability parameter and velocity ratio parameter.


Author(s):  
Anisah Dasman ◽  
Abdul Rahman Mohd Kasim ◽  
Iskandar Waini ◽  
Najiyah Safwa Khashi’ie

This paper aims to present the numerical study of a dusty micropolar fluid due to a stretching sheet with constant wall temperature. Using the suitable similarity transformation, the governing partial differential equations for two-phase flows of the fluid and the dust particles are reduced to the form of ordinary differential equations. The ordinary differential equations are then numerically analysed using the bvp4c function in the Matlab software. The validity of present numerical results was checked by comparing them with the previous study. The results graphically show the numerical solutions of velocity, temperature and microrotation distributions for several values of the material parameter K, fluid-particle interaction parameter and Prandtl number for both fluid and dust phase. The effect of microrotation is investigated and analysed as well. It is found that the distributions are significantly influenced by the investigated parameters for both phases.


Author(s):  
Khadijah M. Abualnaja

This paper introduces a theoretical and numerical study for the problem of Casson fluid flow and heat transfer over an exponentially variable stretching sheet. Our contribution in this work can be observed in the presence of thermal radiation and the assumption of dependence of the fluid thermal conductivity on the heat. This physical problem is governed by a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), which is solved numerically by using the differential transformation method (DTM). This numerical method enables us to plot figures of the velocity and temperature distribution through the boundary layer region for different physical parameters. Apart from numerical solutions with the DTM, solutions to our proposed problem are also connected with studying the skin-friction coefficient. Estimates for the local Nusselt number are studied as well. The comparison of our numerical method with previously published results on similar special cases shows excellent agreement.


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