Thermosolutal LTNE Porous Mixed Convection Under the Influence of the Soret Effect

The effects of horizontal pressure gradient and Soret coefficient on the onset of double-diffusive convection in a fluid-saturated porous layer under the influence of local thermal nonequilibrium (LTNE) temperatures are analyzed. Darcy's law with local acceleration term, which involves the two-field temperature model describing the fluid and solid phases separately and the approximation of Oberbeck-Boussinesq, is used. The dynamics of small-amplitude perturbations on the basic mixed convection flow is studied numerically. Using the Galerkin method along with the QZ-algorithm, the eighth order eigenvalue differential equation obtained by employing linear stability analysis is solved. The solution provides the neutral stability curves and determines the threshold of linear instability, and the critical values of thermal Darcy-Rayleigh number, wave number, and the frequency at the onset of instability are determined for various values of control parameters. It is found that, rather than the stationary motion, the instability is found to be via oscillatory motion. Besides, the contribution to each parameter on stability characteristics is explored in detail, and some relevant findings have been described that have not been reported hitherto in the literature.

Soret and Dufour Effects on Hydromagnetic Flow of H2O-Based Nanofluids Induced by an Exponentially Expanding Sheet Saturated in a Non-Darcian Porous Medium

Diffusion-thermo effect (Dufour effect) and thermal-diffusion effect (Soret effect) on an MHD flow through porous medium taking nanoparticles may be considered to be useful in many engineering problems when there is a species concentration along with the solid nanoparticles. To study such an attracting problem, it is necessary to consider the flow to be single-phase. In the present investigation, the hydromagnetic flow of H2O-based nanofluids due to an exponentially expanding sheet saturated in non-Darcian porous material is examined with Dufour and Soret effects. In addition, temperature and species concentration along the surface in flow distribution are considered to be variable exponentially. Two sorts of nanofluids are considered, to be specific, Cu–H2O and Ag–H2O. Use of proper similarity transformations transfers the governing PDEs to coupled ODEs. Then the solutions of the coupled equations are computed by very efficient shooting method. Non-dimensionless velocity species concentration and temperature are introduced in graphical mode for several values of involved parameters. Out of several obtained outcomes, it is noticeable that similar to the magnetic parameter and permeability parameter, due to increase in non-Darcy Forchheimer parameter velocity diminishes and while temperature and species concentration increments are witnessed. Due to presence of Dufour effect, temperature enhances and similarly, the concentration increases for Soret effect. While due to Dufour effect, the concentration initially decreases, but away from surface it increases and similar behaviour is found for temperature in the case of Soret effect. Also, it is obtained that skin-friction coefficient for Cu–H2O nanofluid is larger than it value for Ag–H2O nanofluid. Dufour effect turns into the reason for the reduction of Nusselt number and increment of Sherwood number for both nanofluids, but Soret effect affects the two nanofluids reversely. The analysis and its findings provide some tools which may be applied in engineering and industrial problems.

Cattaneo–Christov heat flux effect on MHD peristaltic transport of Bingham Al2O3 nanofluid through a non-Darcy porous medium

The present investigation analyzes the influence of Cattaneo–Christov heat and mass fluxes on peristaltic transport of an incompressible flow. The fluid is obeying Bingham alumina nanofluid. The fluid flows between two co-axial vertical tubes. The system is expressed by a varying radially magnetic field with respect to the space. Soret effect and non-Darcy porous medium are taken into account. The governing system of equations is tackled by utilizing the approximations of long wavelength with low Reynolds number and with the help of homotopy perturbation method (HPM). It is noticed that the axial velocity magnifies with an increase in the value of Bingham parameter. Meanwhile, the value of the axial velocity reduces with the elevation in the value of the magnetic field parameter. On the other hand, the elevation in the value of thermal relaxation time leads to a reduction in the value of fluid temperature. Furthermore, increasing in the value of mass relaxation time parameter makes an enhancement in the value of nanoparticles concentration. It is noticed also that the size of the trapped bolus enhances with the increment in the value of Bingham parameter. The current study has many accomplishments in several scientific areas like medical industry, medicine, and others. Therefore, it represents the depiction of the gastric juice motion in the small intestine when an endoscope is inserted through it.

Effect of Couple Stress Fluid in an Irregular Couette Flow Channel: An Analytical Approach

The work embodied in this paper presents the combined effects of Soret, chemical reaction, and Dufour on Couette flow in an irregular channel for dusty viscoelastic couple stress fluid. The behavior of the boundary layer is studied with the help of Brinkman-Forchheimer's extended Darcy model as a momentum equation for the unsteady, incompressible dusty viscoelastic fluid. The heat transfers are considered due to the radiation absorption parameter and Dufour effect, the mass transfer influenced by the chemical reaction, and the Soret effect. The boundary conditions of the problem and leading equations of the physical problem are solved by a similarity transformation, and the consequent ordinary linear differential equations are solved by the perturbation method. The obtained results are shown graphically. The computational results show a good agreement between our values and a particular case of the earlier work.

Investigation of species-mass diffusion in binary-species boundary layers at high pressure using direct numerical simulations

Direct numerical simulations of single-species and binary-species temporal boundary layers at high pressure are performed with special attention to species-mass diffusion. The working fluids are nitrogen or a mixture of nitrogen and methane. Mean profiles and turbulent fluctuations of mass fraction show that their qualitative characteristics are different from those of streamwise velocity and temperature, due to the different boundary conditions. In a wall-parallel plane near the wall, the streamwise velocity and temperature have streaky patterns and the fields are similar. However, the mass fraction field at the same location is different from the streamwise velocity and temperature fields indicating that species-mass diffusion is not similar to the momentum and thermal diffusion. In contrast, at the centre and near the edge of the boundary layer, the mass fraction and temperature fields have almost the same pattern, indicating that the similarity between thermal and species-mass diffusion holds away from the wall. The lack of similarity near the wall is traced to the Soret effect that induces a temperature-gradient-dependent species-mass flux. As a result, a new phenomenon has been identified for a non-isothermal binary-species system – uphill diffusion, which in its classical isothermal definition can only occur for three or more species. A quadrant analysis for the turbulent mass flux reveals that near the wall the Soret effect enhances the negative contributions of the quadrants. Due to the enhancement of the negative contributions, small species-concentration fluid tends to be trapped near the wall.