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Heat transfer and fluid flow of a non-Newtonian nanofluid over an unsteady contracting cylinder employing Buongiorno’s model

Heat transfer and fluid flow of a non-Newtonian nanofluid over an unsteady contracting cylinder... Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss a combined similarity-numerical approach that is used to study the unsteady two-dimensional flow of a non-Newtonian nanofluid over a contracting cylinder using Buongiorno’s model and the Casson fluid model that is used to characterize the non-Newtonian fluid behavior. Design/methodology/approach – Similarity transformations are employed to transform the unsteady Navier-Stokes partial differential equations into a system of ordinary differential equations. The transformed equations are then solved numerically by means of the very robust symbolic computer algebra software MATLAB employing the routine bvpc45. Findings – The effect of increasing values of the Casson parameter is to suppress the velocity field (in absolute sense), the temperature and concentration decrease as Casson parameter increase. The heat and mass transfer rates decrease with the increase of unsteadiness parameters and Brownian motion parameter. In addition, they increase as the Casson parameter and the thermophoresis parameter increase. Originality/value – The problem is relatively original and represents a very important contribution to the field of non-Newtonian nanofluids. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow Emerald Publishing

Heat transfer and fluid flow of a non-Newtonian nanofluid over an unsteady contracting cylinder employing Buongiorno’s model

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Emerald Publishing
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0961-5539
DOI
10.1108/HFF-04-2014-0093
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss a combined similarity-numerical approach that is used to study the unsteady two-dimensional flow of a non-Newtonian nanofluid over a contracting cylinder using Buongiorno’s model and the Casson fluid model that is used to characterize the non-Newtonian fluid behavior. Design/methodology/approach – Similarity transformations are employed to transform the unsteady Navier-Stokes partial differential equations into a system of ordinary differential equations. The transformed equations are then solved numerically by means of the very robust symbolic computer algebra software MATLAB employing the routine bvpc45. Findings – The effect of increasing values of the Casson parameter is to suppress the velocity field (in absolute sense), the temperature and concentration decrease as Casson parameter increase. The heat and mass transfer rates decrease with the increase of unsteadiness parameters and Brownian motion parameter. In addition, they increase as the Casson parameter and the thermophoresis parameter increase. Originality/value – The problem is relatively original and represents a very important contribution to the field of non-Newtonian nanofluids.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow – Emerald Publishing

Published: May 5, 2015

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