Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Devesh Kumar Baghel; Sobha Lata Sinha; Satish Kumar Dewangan
Abstract
Neonatal incubators provide an artificial thermal environment to maintain the thermoregulation of premature babies. Several studies revealed the dry and latent heat exchange estimation between the newborn's body and the surrounding environment. Heat ...
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Neonatal incubators provide an artificial thermal environment to maintain the thermoregulation of premature babies. Several studies revealed the dry and latent heat exchange estimation between the newborn's body and the surrounding environment. Heat transfer due to convection is leading over the thermal radiation in incubators. The aim of this article is to study the airflow modeling and heat transfer coefficient over an infant’s body inside the incubator. For this purpose, an experiment and a numerical simulation are carried out to develop the methodology, and subsequently computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis is accomplished to evaluate the heat transfer coefficient of a preterm infant. By means of the shear stress transport (SST K-ω) turbulence model, 3-D computational, models are numerically studied using the commercial CFD tool Star CCM+. Flow visualization reveals that a large-scale flow circulation pattern is produced in the mean region of the enclosed chamber, and small-scale eddies are generated at corners and close to the walls. The numerical results obtained for heat transfer assessment in the present study are validated with experimental and numerical results available in biomedical open literature.
Heat and Mass Transfer
Kanna Suneetha; Shaik Ibrahim; G.V Ramana Reddy; P Vijaya Kumar
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Due to their position in various industrial applications, convective fluid flow structure is intricate and enticing to investigate. Here the flow has been made by considering multitudinous apropos parameters like induced magnetic factor, heat source and viscous dissipation effects for the mixed convective ...
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Due to their position in various industrial applications, convective fluid flow structure is intricate and enticing to investigate. Here the flow has been made by considering multitudinous apropos parameters like induced magnetic factor, heat source and viscous dissipation effects for the mixed convective chemically radiative fluid from a vertical surface. The frame work of mathematical pattern is conferred with in the circumstances of a system of ordinary differential equations under felicitous legislation.The governed mathematical statement is handled analytically by perturbation strategy. Diagrams and numerical values of the profiles are delineated with apropos parameters. Our sketches illustrate that the induced magnetic field is perceived to be downward with intensification in magnetic parameter. Temperature profile is accelerated by rising thermal radiation and concentration distribution is decelerated by enhancing the chemical reaction and Schmidt number.
Fluid Mechanics
shaik ibrahim; k suneetha; P Vijaya Kumar; Kanithi Jyothsna
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Due to the presence of rheological flow parameters and viscoelastic properties, non-Newtonian fluid structure is intricate and enticing to investigate. The flow has been made by considering variable temperature and radiation effects for the magnetohydrodynamic viscoelastic liquid past ...
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Due to the presence of rheological flow parameters and viscoelastic properties, non-Newtonian fluid structure is intricate and enticing to investigate. The flow has been made by considering variable temperature and radiation effects for the magnetohydrodynamic viscoelastic liquid past a moving vertical plate in a porous state. First order homogeneous chemical reaction, Soret number, variable temperature and concentration have been taken into account. The leading mathematical proclamation is handled analytically by perturbation strategy. The central aspiration of this work is to explore the consequences of sundry parameters on fluid flow, thermal boundary and concentration profiles. Diagram and tabular trends of the profiles are delineated with apropos parameters. Our sketches illustrate that the velocity profile exposes decelerate scenery with escalating M due to the Lorentz force in the opposite direction of flow. Temperature profile is getting accelerated owing to thermal radiation and concentration distribution is declined by boosting up the chemical reaction and Schmidt number. Diminishing nature of momentum boundary layer with Sc is also portrayed. Furthermore, at the end of this paper the effects of different parameters on skin fricition coefficient and local Nusselt number are investigated.
Fluid Mechanics
Salawu Olakunle; Abimbola Abolarinwa; John Fenuga
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In this research, the transient analysis of radiative combustible viscous chemical reactive two-step exothermic fluid flow past a permeable medium with various kinetics i.e Bimolecular, Arrhenius and Sensitized are investigated. The hydromagnetic liquid is influenced by a periodic vicissitudes in the ...
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In this research, the transient analysis of radiative combustible viscous chemical reactive two-step exothermic fluid flow past a permeable medium with various kinetics i.e Bimolecular, Arrhenius and Sensitized are investigated. The hydromagnetic liquid is influenced by a periodic vicissitudes in the axial pressure gradient and time along the channel axis in the occurrence of walls asymmetric convective cooling. The convectional heat transport at the wall surfaces with the neighboring space takes after the cooling law. The non-dimensional principal flow equations are computationally solved by applying convergent and absolutely stable semi-implicit finite difference techniques. The influences of the fluid terms associated with the momentum and energy equations are graphically presented and discussed quantitatively. The results show that the reaction parameter (𝜆) is very sensitive and it is therefore needs to be carefully monitor to avoid systems blow up. Also, a rise in the values of the second step term enhances the combustion rate and thereby reduces the release of unburned hydrocarbon that polluted the environment.
Heat and Mass Transfer
Sreenivasulu Pandikunta; Vasu B; Poornima Tamalapakula; N Bhaskar Reddy
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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 ...
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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.
Heat and Mass Transfer
S. Mohammed Ibrahim; K. Suneetha
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An analytical investigation is conducted to study the unsteady free convection heat and mass transfer flow through a non-homogeneous porous medium with variable permeability bounded by an infinite porous vertical plate in slip flow regime while taking into account the thermal radiation, chemical reaction, ...
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An analytical investigation is conducted to study the unsteady free convection heat and mass transfer flow through a non-homogeneous porous medium with variable permeability bounded by an infinite porous vertical plate in slip flow regime while taking into account the thermal radiation, chemical reaction, the Soret number, and temperature gradient dependent heat source. The flow is considered under the influence of magnetic field applied normal to the flow. Approximate solutions for velocity, temperature, and concentration fields are obtained using perturbation technique. The expressions for skin-friction, rate of heat transfer, and rate of mass transfer are also derived. The effects of various physical parameters, encountered in the problem, on the velocity field, temperature field, and concentration field are numerically shown through graphs, while the effects on skin-friction, rate of heat, and mass transfer are numerically discussed by tables.
Heat and Mass Transfer
S. Mohammed Ibrahim; K. Suneetha
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The present paper was aimed to study the effects of variable thermal conductivity and heat generation on the flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid in the presence of a uniform transverse magnetic field, thermal radiation, porous medium, mass transfer, and variable free stream ...
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The present paper was aimed to study the effects of variable thermal conductivity and heat generation on the flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid in the presence of a uniform transverse magnetic field, thermal radiation, porous medium, mass transfer, and variable free stream near a stagnation point on a non-conducting stretching sheet. Equations of continuity, momentum, energy, and mass were transformed into ordinary differential equations and solved numerically using shooting method. Velocity, temperature, and concentration distributions were numerically discussed and presented in the graphs. Skin-friction coefficient, the Nusselt number, and Sherwood number on the sheet were derived and discussed numerically. Their numerical values for various values of physical parameters were presented in the tables. It was found that temperature increased with increasing radiation parameter, R, and concentration decreased with increasing the Schmidt number, Sc. The numerical predications were compared with the existing information in the literature and a good agreement was obtained.
Heat and Mass Transfer
M. Gnaneswara Reddy
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This paper was concerned with studying the magnetohydrodynamic steady laminar free convection flow of a micropolar fluid past a continuously moving surface in the presence of heat generation and thermal radiation. Similarity transformation was employed to transform the governing partial differential ...
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This paper was concerned with studying the magnetohydrodynamic steady laminar free convection flow of a micropolar fluid past a continuously moving surface in the presence of heat generation and thermal radiation. Similarity transformation was employed to transform the governing partial differential equations into ordinary ones, which were then solved numerically using the finite element method. Numerical results for the dimensionless velocity, microrotation and temperature profiles were obtained and displayed graphically for pertinent parameters to show interesting aspects of the solution. The skin friction and the rate of heat transfer were also computed and presented through tables. Favorable comparison with previously published work was performed.
