scholarly journals Flow and heat transfer past a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in Cu−Al2O3/water hybrid nanofluid

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 1197-1222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rusya Iryanti Yahaya ◽  
Norihan M. Arifin ◽  
Roslinda Nazar ◽  
Ioan Pop
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Skin Friction Coefficient ◽  
The Other ◽  
Shrinking Sheet ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Hybrid Nanofluid ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the flow and heat transfer of a hybrid nanofluid, Cu–Al2O3/water, past a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet. The effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis are considered here. Design/methodology/approach Similarity transformations are used to reduce the governing partial differential equations to a system of ordinary (similarity) differential equations. A MATLAB solver called the bvp4c is then used to compute the numerical solutions of equations (12) to (14) subject to the boundary conditions of equation (15). Then, the effects of various physical parameters on the flow and thermal fields of the hybrid nanofluid are analyzed. Findings Multiple (dual) solutions are found for the basic boundary layer equations. A stability analysis is performed to see which solutions are stable and, therefore, applicable in practice and which are not stable. Besides that, a comparison is made between the hybrid nanofluid and a traditional nanofluid, Cu/water. The skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number of the hybrid nanofluid are found to be greater than that of the other nanofluid. Thus, the hybrid nanofluid has a higher heat transfer rate than the other nanofluid. However, the increase in the shrinking parameter reduces the velocity of the hybrid nanofluid. Originality/value The present results are original and new for the study of the flow and heat transfer past a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in Cu–Al2O3/water hybrid nanofluid.

MHD flow and heat transfer over a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in a hybrid nanofluid with a convective boundary condition

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 3012-3038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emad H. Aly ◽  
Ioan Pop
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Mhd Flow ◽  
Convective Boundary Condition ◽  
Shrinking Sheet ◽  
Hybrid Nanofluid ◽  
Convective Boundary ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

Purpose The purpose of this study is to present both effective analytic and numerical solutions to MHD flow and heat transfer past a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in a hybrid nanofluid with suction/injection and convective boundary conditions. Water (base fluid) nanoparticles of alumina and copper were considered as a hybrid nanofluid. Design/methodology/approach Proper-similarity variables were applied to transform the system of partial differential equations into a system of ordinary (similarity) differential equations. Exact analytical solutions were then presented for the dimensionless stream and temperature functions. Further, the authors introduce a very nice analytic and numerical solutions for both small and large values of the magnetic parameter. Findings It was found that no/unique/two equal/dual physical solutions exist for the investigated boundary value problem. The physically realizable practice of these solutions depends on the range of the governing parameters. For a stretching/shrinking sheet, it was deduced that a hybrid nanofluid works as a cooler on increasing some of the investigated parameters. Moreover, in the case of a shrinking sheet, the first solutions of hybrid nanofluid are stable and physically realizable rather than the nanofluid, while those of the second solutions are not for both hybrid nanofluid and nanofluid. Originality/value The present results for the hybrid nanofluids are new and original, as they successfully extend (generalize) the problems previously considered by different authors for the case of nanofluids.

scholarly journals Flow and Heat Transfer at a Nonlinearly Shrinking Porous Sheet:The Case of Asymptotically Large Powerlaw Shrinking Rates

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 779-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.V. Prasad ◽  
K. Vajravelu ◽  
I. Pop
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Skin Friction Coefficient ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Shrinking Sheet ◽  
Arbitrary Power ◽  
Keller Box Method ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

Abstract The boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a viscous fluid over a nonlinear permeable shrinking sheet in a thermally stratified environment is considered. The sheet is assumed to shrink in its own plane with an arbitrary power-law velocity proportional to the distance from the stagnation point. The governing differential equations are first transformed into ordinary differential equations by introducing a new similarity transformation. This is different from the transform commonly used in the literature in that it permits numerical solutions even for asymptotically large values of the power-law index, m. The coupled non-linear boundary value problem is solved numerically by an implicit finite difference scheme known as the Keller- Box method. Numerical computations are performed for a wide variety of power-law parameters (1 < m < 100,000) so as to capture the effects of the thermally stratified environment on the velocity and temperature fields. The numerical solutions are presented through a number of graphs and tables. Numerical results for the skin-friction coefficient and the Nusselt number are tabulated for various values of the pertinent parameters.

Cross flow and heat transfer past a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in a hybrid nanofluid

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia C. Roşca ◽  
Alin V. Roşca ◽  
Amin Jafarimoghaddam ◽  
Ioan Pop
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Porous Wall ◽  
Shrinking Sheet ◽  
Hybrid Nanofluid ◽  
Lower Branch ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
Branch Solution

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the laminar boundary layer cross flow and heat transfer on a rotational stagnation-point flow over either a stretching or shrinking porous wall submerged in hybrid nanofluids. The involved boundary layers are of stream-wise type with stretching/shrinking process along the surface. Design/methodology/approach Using appropriate similarity variables the partial differential equations are reduced to ordinary (similarity) differential equations. The reduced system of equations is solved analytically (by high-order perturbed field propagation for small to moderate stretching/shrinking parameter and low-order perturbation for large stretching/shrinking parameter) and numerically using the function bvp4c from MATLAB for different values of the governing parameters. Findings It was found that the basic similarity equations admit dual (upper and lower branch) solutions for both stretching/shrinking surfaces. Moreover, performing a linear stability analysis, it was confirmed that the upper branch solution is realistic (physically realizable), while the lower branch solution is not physically realizable in practice. These dual solutions will be studied in the present paper. Originality/value The authors believe that all numerical results are new and original and have not been published before for the present problem.

MHD hybrid nanofluid flow over a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet with thermal radiation effect

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ubaidullah Yashkun ◽  
Khairy Zaimi ◽  
Nor Ashikin Abu Bakar ◽  
Anuar Ishak ◽  
Ioan Pop
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Friction Coefficient ◽  
Thermal Radiation ◽  
Radiation Effects ◽  
Skin Friction Coefficient ◽  
Shrinking Sheet ◽  
Hybrid Nanofluid ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

Purpose This study aims to investigate the heat transfer characteristic of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) hybrid nanofluid over the linear stretching and shrinking surface in the presence of suction and thermal radiation effects. Design/methodology/approach Mathematical equations are transformed into pairs of self-similarity equations using similarity transformation. Boundary value problem solver (bvp4c) in MATLAB was adopted to solve the system of reduced similarity equations. In this study, the authors particularly examine the flow and heat transfer properties for different values of suction and thermal radiation parameters using single-phase nanofluid model. A comparison of the present results shows a good agreement with the published results. Findings It is noticed that the efficiency of heat transfer of hybrid nanofluid (Cu-Al2O3/H2O) is greater than the nanofluid (Cu/H2O). Furthermore, it is also found that dual solutions exist for a specific range of the stretching/shrinking parameter with different values of suction and radiation parameters. The results indicate that the skin friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number increase with suction effect. The values of the skin friction coefficient increases, but the local Nusselt number decreases for the first solution with the increasing of thermal radiation parameter. It is also observed that suction and thermal radiation widen the range of the stretching/shrinking parameter for which the solution exists. Practical implications In practice, the investigation on the flow and heat transfer of MHD hybrid nanofluid through a stretching/shrinking sheet with suction and thermal radiation effects is very important and useful. The problems related to hybrid nanofluid has numerous real-life and industrial applications, for example microfluidics, manufacturing, transportation, military and biomedical, etc. Originality/value In specific, this study focused on increasing thermal conductivity using a hybrid nanofluid mathematical model. This paper is able to obtain the dual solutions. To the best of author’s knowledge, this study is new and there is no previous published work similar to present study.

Flow and heat transfer of non-Newtonian power-law fluids over a stretching surface with variable thermal conductivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 686-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Yang ◽  
Yanhai Lin
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Temperature Field ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
Power Law Fluids

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the flow and heat transfer of power-law fluids over a non-linearly stretching sheet with non-Newtonian power-law stretching features. Design/methodology/approach The governing non-linear partial differential equations are reduced to a series of ordinary differential equations by suitable similarity transformations and the numerical solutions are obtained by the shooting method. Findings As the temperature power-law index or the power-law number of the fluids increases, the dimensionless stream function, dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature decrease, while the velocity boundary layer and temperature boundary layer become thinner for other fixed physical parameters. The thermal diffusivity varying as a function of the temperature gradient can be used to present the characteristics of flow and heat transfer of non-Newtonian power-law fluids. Originality/value Unlike classical works, the effect of power-law viscosity on the temperature field is considered by assuming that the temperature field is similar to the velocity field with modified Fourier’s law heat conduction for power-law fluid media.

Numerical solutions of non-alignment stagnation-point flow and heat transfer over a stretching/shrinking surface in a nanofluid

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1747-1767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioan Pop ◽  
Kohi Naganthran ◽  
Roslinda Nazar
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Stagnation Point ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Dual Solutions ◽  
Stagnation Point Flow ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Boundary Layer Equations ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
Shrinking Surface

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse numerically the steady stagnation-point flow of a viscous and incompressible fluid over continuously non-aligned stretching or shrinking surface in its own plane in a water-based nanofluid which contains three different types of nanoparticles, namely, Cu, Al2O3 and TiO2. Design/methodology/approach – Similarity transformation is used to convert the system of boundary layer equations which are in the form of partial differential equations into a system of ordinary differential equations. The system of similarity governing equations is then reduced to a system of first-order differential equations and solved numerically using the bvp4c function in Matlab software. Findings – Unique solution exists when the surface is stretched and dual solutions exist as the surface shrunk. For the dual solutions, stability analysis has revealed that the first solution (upper branch) is stable and physically realizable, while the second solution (lower branch) is unstable. The effect of non-alignment is huge for the shrinking surface which is in contrast with the stretching surface. Practical implications – The results obtained can be used to explain the characteristics and applications of nanofluids, which are widely used as coolants, lubricants, heat exchangers and micro-channel heat sinks. This problem also applies to some situations such as materials which are manufactured by extrusion, production of glass-fibre and shrinking balloon. In this kind of circumstance, the rate of cooling and the stretching/shrinking process play an important role in moulding the final product according to preferable features. Originality/value – The present results are original and new for the study of fluid flow and heat transfer over a stretching/shrinking surface for the problem considered by Wang (2008) in a viscous fluid and extends to nanofluid by using the Tiwari and Das (2007) model.

Unsteady separated stagnation-point flow and heat transfer past a stretching/shrinking sheet in a copper-water nanofluid

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 2588-2605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia C. Roşca ◽  
Alin V. Roşca ◽  
Ioan Pop
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Partial Differential Equations ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Stagnation Point ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Similarity Transformation ◽  
Stagnation Point Flow ◽  
Shrinking Sheet ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to theoretically investigate the unsteady separated stagnation-point flow and heat transfer past an impermeable stretching/shrinking sheet in a copper (Cu)-water nanofluid using the mathematical nanofluid model proposed by Tiwari and Das. Design/methodology/approach A similarity transformation is used to reduce the governing partial differential equations to a set of nonlinear ordinary (similarity) differential equations which are then solved numerically using the function bvp4c from Matlab for different values of the governing parameters. Findings It is found that the solution is unique for stretching case; however, multiple (dual) solutions exist for the shrinking case. Originality/value The authors believe that all numerical results are new and original, and have not been published elsewhere.

scholarly journals Magnetohydrodynamic Flow and Heat Transfer Induced by a Shrinking Sheet

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 1175
Author(s):  
Nor Ain Azeany Mohd Nasir ◽  
Anuar Ishak ◽  
Ioan Pop
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Prandtl Number ◽  
Heat Generation ◽  
Local Nusselt Number ◽  
Magnetic Parameter ◽  
Skin Friction Coefficient ◽  
Shrinking Sheet ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stagnation point flow over a shrinking or stretching flat sheet is investigated. The governing partial differential equations (PDEs) are reduced into a set of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by a similarity transformation and are solved numerically with the help of MATLAB software. The numerical results obtained are for different values of the magnetic parameter M, heat generation parameter Q, Prandtl number Pr and reciprocal of magnetic Prandtl number ε. The influences of these parameters on the flow and heat transfer characteristics are investigated and shown in tables and graphs. Two solutions are found for a certain rate of the shrinking strength. The stability of the solutions in the long run is determined, and shows that only one of them is stable. It is found that the skin friction coefficient f ″ ( 0 ) and the local Nusselt number − θ ′ ( 0 ) decrease as the magnetic parameter M increases. Further, the local Nusselt number increases as the heat generation increases.

scholarly journals MHD stagnation-point flow and heat transfer past a stretching/shrinking sheet in a hybrid nanofluid with induced magnetic field

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 1345-1364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad Mustaqim Junoh ◽  
Fadzilah Md Ali ◽  
Norihan Md Arifin ◽  
Norfifah Bachok ◽  
Ioan Pop
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Stagnation Point ◽  
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations ◽  
Stagnation Point Flow ◽  
Shrinking Sheet ◽  
Hybrid Nanofluid ◽  
Induced Magnetic Field ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the steady magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) boundary layer stagnation-point flow of an incompressible, viscous and electrically conducting fluid past a stretching/shrinking sheet with the effect of induced magnetic field. Design/methodology/approach The governing nonlinear partial differential equations are transformed into a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations via the similarity transformations before they are solved numerically using the “bvp4c” function in MATLAB. Findings It is found that there exist non-unique solutions, namely, dual solutions for a certain range of the stretching/shrinking parameters. The results from the stability analysis showed that the first solution (upper branch) is stable and valid physically, while the second solution (lower branch) is unstable. Practical implications This problem is important in the heat transfer field such as electronic cooling, engine cooling, generator cooling, welding, nuclear system cooling, lubrication, thermal storage, solar heating, cooling and heating in buildings, biomedical, drug reduction, heat pipe, space aircrafts and ships with better efficiency than that of nanofluids applicability. The results obtained are very useful for researchers to determine which solution is physically stable, whereby, mathematically more than one solution exist. Originality/value The present results are new and original for the problem of MHD stagnation-point flow over a stretching/shrinking sheet in a hybrid nanofluid, with the effect of induced magnetic field.

Hybrid nanofluid flow and heat transfer over a nonlinear permeable stretching/shrinking surface

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 3110-3127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iskandar Waini ◽  
Anuar Ishak ◽  
Ioan Pop
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Friction Coefficient ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Local Nusselt Number ◽  
Skin Friction Coefficient ◽  
Hybrid Nanofluid ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
Shrinking Surface

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the steady flow and heat transfer of a Cu-Al2O3/water hybrid nanofluid over a nonlinear permeable stretching/shrinking surface with radiation effects. The surface velocity condition is assumed to be of the power-law form with an exponent of 1/3. The governing equations of the problem are converted into a system of similarity equations by using a similarity transformation.Design/methodology/approachThe problem is solved numerically using the boundary value problem solver (bvp4c) in Matlab software. The results of the skin friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number as well as the velocity and temperature profiles are presented through graphs and tables for several values of the parameters. The effects of these parameters on the flow and heat transfer characteristics are examined and discussed.FindingsResults found that dual solutions exist for a certain range of the stretching/shrinking and suction parameters. The increment of the skin friction coefficient and reduction of the local Nusselt number on the shrinking sheet is observed with the increasing of copper (Cu) nanoparticle volume fractions for the upper branch. The skin friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number increase when suction parameter is increased for the upper branch. Meanwhile, the temperature increases in the presence of the radiation parameter for both branches.Originality/valueThe problem of Cu-Al2O3/water hybrid nanofluid flow and heat transfer over a nonlinear permeable stretching/shrinking surface with radiation effects is the important originality of the present study where the dual solutions for the flow reversals are obtained.

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