scholarly journals Effect of Viscous Dissipation and Thermal Radiation on Heat Transfer over a Non-Linearly Stretching Sheet Through Porous Medium

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.M. Nandeppanavar ◽  
M.N. Siddalingappa

In this present paper, we have discussed the effects of viscous dissipation and thermal radiation on heat transfer over a non-linear stretching sheet through a porous medium. Usual similarity transformations are considered to convert the non-linear partial differential equation of motion and heat transfer into ODE’s. Solutions of motion and heat transfer are obtained by the Runge-Kutta integration scheme with most efficient shooting technique. The graphical results are presented to interpret various physical parameters of interest. It is found that the velocity profile decreases with an increase of the porous parameter asymptotically. The temperature field decreases with an increase in the parametric values of the Prandtl number and thermal radiation while with an increase in parameters of the Eckert number and porous parameter, the temperature field increases in both PST (power law surface temperature) and PHF (power law heat flux) cases. The numerical values of the non-dimensional wall temperature gradient and wall temperature are tabulated and discussed.

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Shit ◽  
R. Haldar ◽  
A. Sinha

AbstractA non-linear analysis has been made to study the unsteady hydromagnetic boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium. The effects of thermal radiation in the boundary layer flow over a stretching sheet have also been investigated. The system of governing partial differential equations in the boundary layer have reduced to a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations using a suitable similarity transformation. The resulting non-linear coupled ordinary differential equations are solved numerically by using an implicit finite difference scheme. The numerical results concern with the axial velocity, micro-rotation component and temperature profiles as well as local skin-friction coefficient and the rate of heat transfer at the sheet. The study reveals that the unsteady parameter S has an increasing effect on the flow and heat transfer characteristics.


2015 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 532-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Modather M. Abdou ◽  
E. Roshdy EL-Zahar ◽  
Ali J. Chamkha

An analysis was carried out to study the effect of thermal radiation on magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow and heat transfer characteristics of a non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluid near the stagnation point of a vertical stretching sheet in a porous medium with internal heat generation–absorption. The flow is generated because of linear stretching of the sheet and influenced by the uniform magnetic field that is applied horizontally in the flow region. Using a similarity variable, the governing nonlinear partial differential equations have been transformed into a set of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations, which are solved numerically using an accurate implicit finite difference scheme. A comparison of the obtained results with previously published numerical results is done and the results are found to be in good agreement. The effects of the viscoelastic fluid parameter, magnetic field parameter, nonuniform heat source–sink, and the thermal radiation parameter on the heat transfer characteristics are presented graphically and discussed. The values of the skin friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number are tabulated for both cases of assisting and opposing flows.


Author(s):  
G.C. Layek ◽  
Bidyut Mandal ◽  
Krishnendu Bhattacharyya ◽  
Astick Banerjee

AbstractA symmetry analysis of steady two-dimensional boundary layer stagnation-point flow and heat transfer of viscous incompressible non-Newtonian power-law fluids over a nonlinearly shrinking/stretching sheet with thermal radiation effect is presented. Lie group of continuous symmetry transformations is employed to the boundary layer flow and heat transfer equations, that gives scaling laws and self-similar equations for a special type of shrinking/stretching velocity ($c{x^{1/3}}$) and free-stream straining velocity ($a{x^{1/3}}$) along the axial direction to the sheet. The self-similar equations are solved numerically using very efficient shooting method. For the above nonlinear velocities, the unique self-similar solution is obtained for straining velocity being always less than the shrinking/stretching velocity for Newtonian and non-Newtonian power-law fluids. The thickness of velocity boundary layer becomes thinner with power-law index for shrinking as well as stretching sheet cases. Also, the thermal boundary layer thickness decreases with increasing values the Prandtl number and the radiation parameter.


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