Analytical solution of magnetohydrodynamic sink flow

An analytical solution to the famous Falkner-Skan equation for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow is obtained for a special case, namely, the sink flow with a velocity power index of −1. The solution is given in a closed form. Multiple solution branches are obtained. The effects of the magnetic parameter and the wall stretching parameter are analyzed. Interesting velocity profiles are observed with reversal flow regions even for a stationary wall. These solutions provide a rare case of the Falkner-Skan MHD flow with an analytical closed form formula. They greatly enrich the analytical solution for the celebrated Falkner-Skan equation and provide better understanding of this equation.     

Flow and heat transfer over a generalized stretching/shrinking wall problem—Exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations

In this paper, we investigate the steady momentum and heat transfer of a viscous fluid flow over a stretching/shrinking sheet. Exact solutions are presented for the Navier-Stokes equations. The new solutions provide a more general formulation including the linearly stretching and shrinking wall problems as well as the asymptotic suction velocity profiles over a moving plate. Interesting non-linear phenomena are observed in the current results including both exponentially decaying solution and algebraically decaying solution, multiple solutions with infinite number of solutions for the flow field, and velocity overshoot. The energy equation ignoring viscous dissipation is solved exactly and the effects of the mass transfer parameter, the Prandtl number, and the wall stretching/shrinking strength on the temperature profiles and wall heat flux are also presented and discussed. The exact solution of this general flow configuration is a rare case for the Navier-Stokes equation.     

Flow and heat transfer due to impulsive motion of a cone in a viscous fluid

Numerical solution has been obtained for the development of the flow over a cone which is impulsively set into motion. Initially the flow is described by the solution of Rayleigh and then it tends to the ultimate steady state solution of Falkner-Skan equation. But due to the leading edge effect the semi-similar equation describing the transient flow changes its character after certain time and the solution depends also on the ultimate steady state solution of the Falkner-Skan equation. A second-order upwind difference scheme has been used for discretisation. The temperature distribution and heat transfer has also been obtained for constant wall temperature as well as for constant heat flux at the wall. With the increase ofm, Falkner-Skan parameter, the magnitude of skin friction and wall heat transfer increases. It has been found that form≥?0.275 flow separation does not occur.     

Diffusion of chemically reactive species of a non-Newtonian fluid immersed in a porous medium over a stretching sheet

The influence of reaction rate on the transfer of chemically reactive species in the laminar visco-elastic fluid flow immersed in a porous medium over a stretching sheet is considered. The flow is caused solely by the linearly stretching sheet and the reactive species is emitted from this sheet and undergoes an isothermal and homogeneous one-stage reaction as it diffuses into the surrounding fluid. A similarity transformation is introduced, which reduces the concentration conservation equation to an ordinary differential equation. An exact analytical solution due to Siddappa and Abel (Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 36 (1985) 890) is adopted for velocity, where as the concentration equation is obtained numerically for higher-order reactions. The numerical computations show that the effect of destructive chemical reaction is to reduce the thickness of concentration boundary layer and increase the mass transfer rate from the sheet to the surrounding fluid. This effect is more effective for zero- and first-order reaction than second- and third-order reactions.     

An exact analytical solution of the unsteady magnetohydrodynamics nonlinear dynamics of laminar boundary layer due to an impulsively linear stretching sheet

In this paper, we investigate the theoretical analysis for the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic laminar boundary layer flow due to impulsively stretching sheet. The third-order highly nonlinear partial differential equation modeling the unsteady boundary layer flow brought on by an impulsively stretching flat sheet was solved by applying Adomian decomposition method and Pade approximants. The exact analytical solution so obtained is in terms of rapidly converging power series and each of the variants are easily computable. Variations in parameters such as mass transfer (suction/injection) and Chandrasekhar number on the velocity are observed by plotting the graphs. This particular problem is technically sound and has got applications in expulsion process and related process in fluid dynamics problems.     

Momentum and heat transfer of a special case of the unsteady stagnation-point flow

This paper investigates the unsteady stagnation-point flow and heat transfer over a moving plate with mass transfer,which is also an exact solution to the unsteady Navier-Stokes(NS)equations.The boundary layer energy equation is solved with the closed form solutions for prescribed wall temperature and prescribed wall heat flux conditions.The wall temperature and heat flux have power dependence on both time and spatial distance.The solution domain,the velocity distribution,the flow field,and the temperature distribution in the fluids are studied for different controlling parameters.These parameters include the Prandtl number,the mass transfer parameter at the wall,the wall moving parameter,the time power index,and the spatial power index.It is found that two solution branches exist for certain combinations of the controlling parameters for the flow and heat transfer problems.The heat transfer solutions are given by the confluent hypergeometric function of the first kind,which can be simplified into the incomplete gamma functions for special conditions.The wall heat flux and temperature profiles show very complicated variation behaviors.The wall heat flux can have multiple poles under certain given controlling parameters,and the temperature can have significant oscillations with overshoot and negative values in the boundary layers.The relationship between the number of poles in the wall heat flux and the number of zero-crossing points is identified.The difference in the results of the prescribed wall temperature case and the prescribed wall heat flux case is analyzed.Results given in this paper provide a rare closed form analytical solution to the entire unsteady NS equations,which can be used as a benchmark problem for numerical code validation.     

Gravity-driven laminar film flow of power-law fluids along vertical walls

A theoretical analysis is presented which brings steady laminar film flow of power-law fluids within the framework of classical boundary layer theory. The upper part of the film, which consists of a developing viscous boundary layer and an external inviscid freestream, is treated separately from the viscous dominated part of the flow, thereby taking advantage of the distinguishing features of each flow region. It is demonstrated that the film boundary layer developing along a vertical wall can be described by a generalized Falkner-Skan type equation originally developed for wedge flow. An exact similarity solution for the velocity field in the film boundary layer is thus made available.Downstream of the boundary layer flow regime the fluid flow is completely dominated by the action of viscous shear, and fairly accurate solutions are obtained by the Von Karman integral method approach. A new form of the velocity profile is assumed, which reduces to the exact analytic solution for the fully-developed film. By matching the downstream integral method solution to the upstream generalized Falkner-Skan similarity solution, accurate estimates for the hydrodynamic entrance length are obtained. It is also shown that the flow development in the upstream region predicted by the approximate integral method closely corresponds to the exact similarity solution for that flow regime. An analytical solution of the resulting integral equation for the Newtonian case is compared with previously published results.     

Local non-similarity solution to impact of chemical reaction on MHD mixed convection heat and mass transfer flow over porous wedge in the presence of suction / injection

Combined heat and mass transfer on free, forced, and mixed convection flow along a porous wedge with magnetic effect in the presence of chemical reaction is investigated. The flow field characteristics are analyzed by the Runge-Kutta-Gill scheme with the shooting method as well as the local non-similarity method up to the third level of truncation, which are used to reduce the governing partial differential equations into nine ordinary differential equations. The governing boundary layer equations are converted to a dimensionless form by Falkner-Skan transformations. Because of the effect of suction/injection on the wall of the wedge with buoyancy force and variable wall temperature, the flow field is locally non-similar. Numerical calculations up to the third order level of truncation are carried out as a special case for different values of dimensionless parameters. Effects of the magnetic field strength in the presence of chemical reaction with variable wall temperature and concentration on the dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are shown graphically.     

Effects of radiation and heat source on MHD flow of a viscoelastic liquid and heat transfer over a stretching sheet

We study the MHD flow and also heat transfer in a viscoelastic liquid over a stretching sheet in the presence of radiation. The stretching of the sheet is assumed to be proportional to the distance from the slit. Two different temperature conditions are studied, namely (i) the sheet with prescribed surface temperature (PST) and (ii) the sheet with prescribed wall heat flux (PHF). The basic boundary layer equations for momentum and heat transfer, which are non-linear partial differential equations, are converted into non-linear ordinary differential equations by means of similarity transformation. The resulting non-linear momentum differential equation is solved exactly. The energy equation in the presence of viscous dissipation (or frictional heating), internal heat generation or absorption, and radiation is a differential equation with variable coefficients, which is transformed to a confluent hypergeometric differential equation using a new variable and using the Rosseland approximation for the radiation. The governing differential equations are solved analytically and the effects of various parameters on velocity profiles, skin friction coefficient, temperature profile and wall heat transfer are presented graphically. The results have possible technological applications in liquid-based systems involving stretchable materials.     

Slip effect on the magnetohydrodynamics channel flow in the presence of the across mass transfer phenomenon

This paper deals with the slip effect on the across mass transfer (AMT) phenomenon in a three-dimensional flow of a hydromagnetic viscous fluid in a channel with a stretching lower wall. Both walls of the channel are considered to be porous so that the AMT phenomenon can be established. The governing equations are solved analytically. The accuracy of the series solution is proved by comparing the results with a numerical solution. The slip condition is observed to be helpful in reducing the viscous drag on the stretching sheet.     

Similar solutions of stretching flow with mass transfer

This study describes the influence of mass transfer on the steady two‐dimensional magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow of a Jeffery fluid bounded by a stretching sheet. A uniform magnetic field in the presence of chemical reaction is applied. The arising nonlinear partial differential equations are reduced to nonlinear ordinary differential equations by similarity variables. Similar solutions of velocity and concentration fields are derived by a homotopy analysis method. The values of surface mass transfer and gradient of mass transfer are also tabulated. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Falkner-Skan方程的近似解析解

研究了粘性流体绕流楔型物体的Falkner-Skan边界层方程求解问题.利用Adomian拆分方法,通过引入Crocco变量变换将无穷区间的边界值问题转为初值问题并利用Padé逼近技巧确定初值,给出了一种有效的解析分解方法.进一步,本文设计了一种数值解法,将本文得到的近似解析解及数值结果与早期研究者Hartree等人的结果进行了比较,证明了本文提出的解法的有效性和可靠性.     

Exact solutions for the incompressible viscous fluid of a porous rotating disk flow

The present paper is concerned with a class of exact solutions to the steady Navier-Stokes equations for the incompressible Newtonian viscous fluid flow motion due to a porous disk rotating with a constant angular speed. The three-dimensional equations of motion are treated analytically yielding derivation of exact solutions with suction and injection through the surface included. The well-known thinning/thickening flow field effect of the suction/injection is better understood from the exact velocity equations obtained. Making use of this solution, analytical formulas corresponding to the permeable wall shear stresses are extracted.Interaction of the resolved flow field with the surrounding temperature is further analyzed via the energy equation. As a result, exact formulas are obtained for the temperature field which take different forms depending on whether suction or injection is imposed on the wall. The impacts of several quantities are investigated on the resulting temperature field. In accordance with the Fourier‘s heat law, a constant heat transfer from the porous disk to the fluid takes place. Although the influence of dissipation varies, suction enhances the heat transfer rate as opposed to the injection.     

Application of an inverse mass transfer method to the measurement of turbulent fluctuations in the velocity gradient at the wall

The frequency response of the concentration boundarylayer is often a concern when flush mounted mass transfer probes are used to measure turbulent fluctuations in the velocity gradient at a wall. Present practice involves the use of a solution of the mass balance equation which is linear in the fluctuating quantities. An inverse mass transfer method is explored in this paper, which avoids the linearization assumption. Improved measurements of the amplitude probability distribution and of the frequency spectrum of the streamwise component of the fluctuating velocity gradient are presented. In particular, values of rms level, skewness and flatness of 0.37, 0.96, 4.2 are obtained, in good agreement with a recent study by Alfredson, Johansson, Haritonidis and Eckelmann.     

Asymptotic solution of the Orr-Sommerfeld equation in the outer region of the boundary layer with allowance for nonparallelism

There have been many publications devoted to the investigation of the hydrodynamic stability of nonparallel flows on the basis of the modified Orr-Sommerfeld equation [1–4]. Taking into account the additional terms associated with the presence in the flow of a transverse component of velocity and acceleration can lead not only to a significant quantitative discrepancy as compared with calculations based on the usual Orr-Sommer-feld equation but also to qualitatively new results (nonclosure of the neutral curves for flow on a permeable surface in the presence of strong injection [4]). In this paper an asymptotic solution of the Orr-Sommer-feld equation, valid in the outer region of boundary layer flow, is constructed for self-similar gradient flow over a surface (Falkner-Skan flow). The continuity of the eigenvalue spectrum for an unbounded increase in the perturbation propagation velocity is demonstrated on the basis of the solution obtained. For the ordinary Orr-Sommerfeld equation a continuous transition of the spectrum through the value of the perturbation propagation velocity C_r=1 (which coincides with the velocity of the external flow) is impossible [5].Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 171–173, January–February, 1987.     

Unsteady magnetohydrodynamic stagnation point flow — closed-form analytical solutions

This paper investigates the unsteady stagnation point flow and heat transfer of magnetohydrodynamic(MHD) fluids over a moving permeable flat surface. The unsteady Navier-Stokes(NS) equations are transformed into a similarity nonlinear ordinary differential equation, and a closed form solution is obtained for the unsteadiness parameter of 2. The boundary layer energy equation is transformed into a similarity equation,and is solved for a constant wall temperature and a time-dependent uniform wall heat flux case. The solution domain, velocity, and temperature profiles are calculated for different combinations of parameters including the Prandtl number, mass transfer parameter, wall moving parameter, and magnetic parameter. Two solution branches are obtained for certain combinations of the controlling parameters, and a stability analysis demonstrates that the lower solution branch is not stable. The present solutions provide an exact solution to the entire unsteady MHD NS equations, which can be used for validating the numerical code of computational fluid dynamics.     

Stagnation-point flow of couple stress fluid with melting heat transfer

Melting heat transfer in the boundary layer flow of a couple stress fluid over a stretching surface is investigated. The developed differential equations are solved for homotopic solutions. It is observed that the velocity and the boundary layer thickness are decreasing functions of the couple stress fluid parameter. However, the temperature and surface heat transfer increase when the values of the couple stress fluid parameter increase. The velocity and temperature fields increase with an increase in the melting process of the stretching sheet.     

Time-dependent three-dimensional flow and mass transfer of elastico-viscous fluid over unsteady stretching sheet

This article studies the three-dimensional boundary layer flow of an elasticoviscous luid over a stretching surface. Velocity of the stretching sheet is assumed to be ime-dependent. Effect of mass transfer with higher order chemical reaction is further onsidered. Computations are made by the homptopy analysis method (HAM). Convergence f the obtained series solutions is explicitly analyzed. Variations of embedding arameters on the velocity and concentration are graphically discussed. Numerical computations f surface mass transfer are reported. Comparison of the present results with he numerical solutions is also given.     

Time-dependent three-dimensional flow and mass transfer of elastico-viscous fluid over unsteady stretching sheet

This article studies the three-dimensional boundary layer flow of an elasticoviscous fluid over a stretching surface. Velocity of the stretching sheet is assumed to be time-dependent. Effect of mass transfer with higher order chemical reaction is further considered. Computations are made by the homptopy analysis method (HAM). Convergence of the obtained series solutions is explicitly analyzed. Variations of embedding parameters on the velocity and concentration are graphically discussed. Numerical computations of surface mass transfer are reported. Comparison of the present results with the numerical solutions is also given.     

A numerical study for three-dimensional viscoelastic flow inspired by non-linear radiative heat flux

Present article examines the three-dimensional flow of upper-convected Maxwell (UCM) fluid over a radiative bi-directional stretching surface. Novel non-linear Rosseland formula for thermal radiation is utilized in the formulation of energy equation. The conventional transformations lead to a strongly non-linear differential system which is treated numerically through Runge–Kutta integration procedure together with the shooting approach. We found that heat transfer rate from the sheet has inverse as well as non-linear relationship with wall to ambient temperature ratio. Moreover an increase in viscoelastic fluid parameter (Deborah number) corresponds to a decrease in the fluid velocity and the boundary layer thickness.