Three-dimensional flow over a stretching surface in a viscoelastic fluid

This article looks at the hydrodynamic elastico-viscous fluid over a stretching surface. The equations governing the flow are reduced to ordinary differential equations, which are analytically solved by applying an efficient technique namely the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The solutions for the velocity components are computed. The numerical values of wall skin friction coefficients are also tabulated. The present HAM solution is compared with the known exact solution for the two-dimensional flow and an excellent agreement is found.     

电渗流中传热传质过程与熵的分析

在壁面存在恒定热通量条件下,分析微通道内电渗流中传热传质过程与熵的生成.建立数值计算模型,分别采用Poisson-Boltzmann方程、Navier-Stokes方程、Nernst-Planck方程和能量方程来描述微通道内双电层电势、流场、离子浓度和温度的分布情况.引入熵产生,进一步研究不同流动参数对流体传热过程的作用,讨论不同流动参数下各热效应的变化规律,并具体分析热效应参数对流体总熵增加及各部分热效应对总熵比重的影响.结果表明,动电参数与Joule(焦耳)热系数的增大会使得传热性能减弱,动电参数对传热性能影响更为明显;流体的总熵为动电参数、传质系数和质量弥散系数的增函数.     

具有延伸表面的驻点流动和传热问题的级数解

研究了在延伸表面上不可压缩二维驻点流动的动量和热量传输问题.通过一系列相似变换把轴对称和平面二维驻点流的控制方程组转化为常微分方程组,利用同伦分析方法求得了速度分布和温度分布的级数解.结果表明,当主流流速大于平面延伸的速度时,就形成了一个边界层,而当主流流速小于平面延伸的速度时,却形成一个反边界层.通过图形和表分析各个物性参数对速度边界层和温度边界层的影响.     

Analysis of viscous flow due to a stretching sheet with surface slip and suction

The viscous flow due to a stretching sheet with slip and suction is studied. The Navier–Stokes equations admit exact similarity solutions. For two-dimensional stretching a closed-form solution is found and uniqueness is proved. For axisymmetric stretching both existence and uniqueness are shown. The boundary value problem is then integrated numerically.     

Unsteady flow of a Maxwell fluid over a stretching surface in presence of chemical reaction

An analysis is presented for unsteady two-dimensional flow of a Maxwell fluid over a stretching surface in presence of a first order constructive/destructive chemical reaction. Using suitable transformations, the governing partial differential equations are converted to ordinary one and are then solved numerically by shooting method. The flow fields and mass transfer are significantly influenced by the governing parameters. Fluid velocity initially decreases with increasing unsteadiness parameter and concentration decreases significantly due to unsteadiness. The effect of increasing values of the Maxwell parameter is to suppress the velocity field. But the concentration is enhanced with increasing Maxwell parameter.     

Homotopy analysis of unsteady boundary layer flow adjacent to permeable stretching surface in a porous medium

This communication deals with the unsteady boundary layer flow of a viscous fluid in porous medium started due to the impulsively stretching of the plane wall. The wall is assumed to be porous so that suction or injection is possible. Complete analytic solution which is uniformly valid for all the dimensionless times 0 ⩽ τ < 0 in the whole spatial region 0 ⩽ η < ∞ is obtained by a purely analytic technique, namely the homotopy analysis method. Results are discussed through graphs.     

Analytical solution of magnetohydrodynamic stagnation-point flow of a power-law fluid towards a stretching surface

A new kind of analytic technique, namely the homotopy analysis method (HAM), is employed to give an explicit analytical solution of the steady two-dimensional stagnation-point flow of an electrically conducting power-law fluid over a stretching surface when the surface is stretched in its own plane with a velocity proportional to the distance from the stagnation-point. A uniform transverse magnetic field is applied normal to the surface. An explicit analytical solution is given by recursive formulae for the first-order power-law (Newtonian) fluid when the ratio of free stream velocity and stretching velocity is not equal to unity. For second and real order power-law fluids, an analytical approach is proposed for magnetic field parameter in a quite large range. All of our analytical results agree well with numerical results. The results obtained by HAM suggest that the solution of the problem under consideration converges.     

半无限介质瞬态热传导的同伦分析法

应用同伦分析法(HAM)求解半无限介质瞬态热传导问题,该问题在不同的热场中有着广泛的应用.将得到的分析结果与精确解和积分法结果进行比较.比较表明,和其它近似方法相比,HAM能够提供更好的近似值.得到了铜、铁和铝在不同时间热流量的变化和温度的分布.     

Homotopy analysis method for MHD viscoelastic fluid flow and heat transfer in a channel with a stretching wall

In this paper, we analyze the flow and heat transfer characteristics of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) viscoelastic fluid in a parallel plate channel with a stretching wall. Homotopy analysis method (HAM) is used to obtain analytical solutions of the governing nonlinear differential equations. The analytical solutions are obtained in the form of infinite series and the convergence of the series solution is discussed explicitly. The obtained results are presented through graphs for several sets of values of the parameters, and the salient features of the solutions are analyzed. A comparison of our HAM results (for a special case of the study) with the available results in the literature (obtained by other methods) shows that our results are accurate for a wide range of parameters. Further, we point that our analysis finds application to the study of the haemodynamic flow of blood in the cardiovascular system subject to external magnetic field.     

同伦分析法求解非线性多孔收缩表面上黏性磁流体的流动

研究在非线性多孔收缩表面上黏性磁流体(MHD)的流动.先用相似变换简化其控制方程,然后用同伦分析法(HAM)求解该简化问题.用图表的形式对问题的相关参数进行讨论,发现在有磁流体时,收缩解存在.同时得到,在不同参数下f″(0)的解是收敛的.     

Analysis of fluid flow and heat transfer over an unsteady stretching surface

This article considers two situations involving unsteady laminar boundary layer flow due to a stretching surface in a quiescent viscous incompressible fluid. In one configuration, the surface is impermeable with prescribed heat flux, in the other, the surface is permeable with prescribed temperature. The boundary value problems governing a similarity reduction for each of these situations are investigated and the existence of a solution is proved for all relevant values of physical parameters. The uniqueness of the solution is also proved for some (but not all) values of the parameters. Finally, a priori bounds are obtained for the skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number.     

在柱坐标系下研究由拉伸缸引起的Casson纳米流体流动与传热传质现象

首次利用柱坐标研究速度滑移和对流表面边界条件下,由拉伸缸引起的稳态层流Casson纳米流体流动、传热及传质现象.采用恰当的相似变换将偏微分控制方程转化为高阶非线性耦合常微分方程,并通过打靶法进行数值求解,图示并详细分析了不同物理参数对速度、温度及浓度分布的影响.结果显示,速度受滑移参数的影响较大,温度和浓度分别受Biot数和Lewis数的影响较大;随着Casson参数的增大,速度下降而温度和浓度都增加;温度随着Brown(布朗)运动参数或热泳参数的增加而上升;浓度随着Brown运动参数的增大而减小,随着热泳参数的增大而增大,当热泳参数较大时,浓度出现了"回流"现象.     

Effects of radiation and variable viscosity on unsteady MHD flow of a rotating fluid from stretching surface in porous medium

This work is focused on the study of unsteady magnetohydrodynamics boundary-layer flow and heat transfer for a viscous laminar incompressible electrically conducting and rotating fluid due to a stretching surface embedded in a saturated porous medium with a temperature-dependent viscosity in the presence of a magnetic field and thermal radiation effects. The fluid viscosity is assumed to vary as an inverse linear function of temperature. The Rosseland diffusion approximation is used to describe the radiative heat flux in the energy equation. With appropriate transformations, the unsteady MHD boundary layer equations are reduced to local nonsimilarity equations. Numerical solutions of these equations are obtained by using the Runge–Kutta integration scheme as well as the local nonsimilarity method with second order truncation. Comparisons with previously published work have been conducted and the results are found to be in excellent agreement. A parametric study of the physical parameters is conducted and a representative set of numerical results for the velocity in primary and secondary flows as well as the local skin-friction coefficients and the local Nusselt number are illustrated graphically to show interesting features of Darcy number, viscosity-variation, magnetic field, rotation of the fluid, and conduction radiation parameters.     

Convective heat transfer in a conducting fluid over a permeable stretching surface with suction and internal heat generation/absorption

We consider a convective flow in a porous medium of an incompressible viscous conducting fluid impinging on a permeable stretching surface with suction, and internal heat generation/absorption. Using a similarity transformation the governing equations of the problem are reduced to a coupled third-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations. We first examine a number of special cases for which we may obtain exact solutions. We then obtain analytical solutions (by the Homotopy Analysis Method) and numerical solutions (by a boundary value problem solver), in order to further study the behavior of the nonlinear differential equations, for various values of the physical parameters. Our numerical solutions are shown to agree with the available results in the literature. We then employ the numerical results to bring out the effects of the suction parameter, heat source/sink parameter, stretching parameter, porosity parameter, the Prandtl number and the free convection parameter on the flow and heat transfer characteristics. In the absence of suction and free convection, our findings are in agreement with the corresponding numerical results of Attia [H.A. Attia, On the effectiveness of porosity on stagnation point flow towards a stretching surface with heat generation, Comput. Mater. Sci. 38 (2007) 741-745].     

Mixed convection in the stagnation-point flow of a Maxwell fluid towards a vertical stretching surface

In the present analysis, we study the steady mixed convection boundary layer flow of an incompressible Maxwell fluid near the two-dimensional stagnation-point flow over a vertical stretching surface. It is assumed that the stretching velocity and the surface temperature vary linearly with the distance from the stagnation-point. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations have been reduced to the coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations by the similarity transformations. Analytical and numerical solutions of the derived system of equations are developed. The homotopy analysis method (HAM) and finite difference scheme are employed in constructing the analytical and numerical solutions, respectively. Comparison between the analytical and numerical solutions is given and found to be in excellent agreement. Both cases of assisting and opposing flows are considered. The influence of the various interesting parameters on the flow and heat transfer is analyzed and discussed through graphs in detail. The values of the local Nusselt number for different physical parameters are also tabulated. Comparison of the present results with known numerical results of viscous fluid is shown and a good agreement is observed.     

Heat transfer in a visco-elastic fluid past a stretching sheet with viscous dissipation and internal heat generation

This paper deals with the study of heat transfer characteristics in the laminar boundary layer flow of a visco-elastic fluid over a linearly stretching continuous surface with variable wall temperature subjected to suction or blowing. The study considers the effects of frictional heating (viscous dissipation) and internal heat generation or absorption. An analysis has been carried out for two different cases of heating processes namely: (i) Prescribed surface temperature (PST) and (ii) Prescribed wall heat flux (PHF) to get the effect of visco-elastic parameter for various situations. Further increase of visco-elastic parameter is to decrease the skin friction on the sheet. The solutions for the temperature and the heat transfer characteristics are obtained in terms of Kummers function. Received: June 16, 2004; revised: February 8, 2005     

Homotopy Analysis Method for the heat transfer of a non-Newtonian fluid flow in an axisymmetric channel with a porous wall

In this article, a powerful analytical method, called the Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM) is introduced to obtain the exact solutions of heat transfer equation of a non-Newtonian fluid flow in an axisymmetric channel with a porous wall for turbine cooling applications. The HAM is employed to obtain the expressions for velocity and temperature fields. Tables are presented for various parameters on the velocity and temperature fields. These results are compared with the solutions which are obtained by Numerical Methods (NM). Also the convergence of the obtained HAM solution is discussed explicitly. These comparisons show that this analytical method is strongly powerful to solve nonlinear problems arising in heat transfer.     

The effect of variable viscosity on MHD viscoelastic fluid flow and heat transfer over a stretching sheet

An analysis has been carried out to study the momentum and heat transfer characteristics in an incompressible electrically conducting non-Newtonian boundary layer flow of a viscoelastic fluid over a stretching sheet. The partial differential equations governing the flow and heat transfer characteristics are converted into highly non-linear coupled ordinary differential equations by similarity transformations. The effect of variable fluid viscosity, Magnetic parameter, Prandtl number, variable thermal conductivity, heat source/sink parameter and thermal radiation parameter are analyzed for velocity, temperature fields, and wall temperature gradient. The resultant coupled highly non-linear ordinary differential equations are solved numerically by employing a shooting technique with fourth order Runge–Kutta integration scheme. The fluid viscosity and thermal conductivity, respectively, assumed to vary as an inverse and linear function of temperature. The analysis reveals that the wall temperature profile decreases significantly due to increase in magnetic field parameter. Further, it is noticed that the skin friction of the sheet decreases due to increase in the Magnetic parameter of the flow characteristics.