Heat and Mass Transfer
Vasu B; Atul Kumar Ray
Abstract
This study aims to numerically investigate a two dimensional and steady heat transfer over a cylinder in a porous medium with suspending nanoparticles. Buongiorno model is adopted for nanofluid transport on a free convection flow taking the slip mechanism of Brownian motion and thermophoresis into account. ...
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This study aims to numerically investigate a two dimensional and steady heat transfer over a cylinder in a porous medium with suspending nanoparticles. Buongiorno model is adopted for nanofluid transport on a free convection flow taking the slip mechanism of Brownian motion and thermophoresis into account. The Boussinesq approximation is considered to account for buoyancy. The boundary layer conservation equations are transformed into dimensionless and then elucidated using a robust Keller-box implicit code numerically. The numerical results are displayed graphically and deliberated quantitatively for various values of thermo-physical parameters. Our results shows that, increasing the Forchheimer parameter, Λ, clearly swamps the nanofluid momentum development, decreases the flow for some distance near the cylinder viscous region, later it reverses the trend, and asymptotically reaches the far field flow velocity. Furthermore, as thermophoresis parameter increases, the heat transfer and nanoparticle volume concentration increase within the boundary layer. The present results are validated with the available results of a similar study and is found to be in good coincidence. The study finds applications in heat exchangers technology, materials processing, and geothermal energy storage etc.
Heat and Mass Transfer
Sreenivasulu Pandikunta; Vasu B; Poornima Tamalapakula; N Bhaskar Reddy
Abstract
The present paper focuses on numerical study for an inclined magneto-hydrodynamic effect on free convection flow of a tangent hyperbolic nanofluid embedded with Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) over a stretching surface taking velocity and thermal slip into account. Two types of nanoparticles are considered for ...
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The present paper focuses on numerical study for an inclined magneto-hydrodynamic effect on free convection flow of a tangent hyperbolic nanofluid embedded with Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) over a stretching surface taking velocity and thermal slip into account. Two types of nanoparticles are considered for the study; they are single and multi-walled nanotubes. The presentation of single-parameter group (Lie group) transformations reduces the independent variable number by one, and hence the partial differential governing equations with the supplementary atmospheres into an ordinary differential equation with the appropriate suitable conditions. The obtained ordinary differential equations are then numerically solved by employing fourth order Runge-Kutta technique along with shooting method. The effects of the various parameters governing the flow field are presented with the help of graphs. The investigation reveals that the non-Newtonian MWWCNTs Tangent hyperbolic nano-liquid reduces the friction near the stretching sheet contrasting SWCNTs. This combination can be used as a friction lessening agent/factor. Usage of CNTs shows an excellent performance in enhancing the thermal conductivity of the nanoliquid and single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) has higher thermal conductivity than multi wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) even in the presence of radiative heat transfer and heat source. Comparison with existing results available in literature is made and had an excellent coincidence with our numerical method.
