Thermal-mechanical vibration and instability of a fluid-conveying single-walled carbon nanotube embedded in an elastic medium based on nonlocal elasticity theory

Based on the theories of thermal elasticity mechanics and nonlocal elasticity, an elastic Bernoulli-Euler beam model is developed for thermal-mechanical vibration and buckling instability of a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) conveying fluid and resting on an elastic medium. The finite element method is adopted to obtain the numerical solutions to the model. The effects of temperature change, nonlocal parameter and elastic medium constant on the vibration frequency and buckling instability of SWCNT conveying fluid are investigated. It can be concluded that at low or room temperature, the fundamental natural frequency and critical flow velocity for the SWCNT increase as the temperature change increases, on the other hand, while at high temperature the fundamental natural frequency and critical flow velocity decrease as the temperature change increases. The fundamental natural frequency for the SWCNT decreases as the nonlocal parameter increases, both the fundamental natural frequency and critical flow velocity increase as elastic medium constant increases.     

Unsteady mixed convection heat transfer along a vertical stretching surface with variable viscosity and viscous dissipation

The effect of variable viscosity on laminar mixed convection flow and heat transfer along a semi-infinite unsteady stretching sheet taking into account the effect of viscous dissipation is studied. The flow of the fluid and subsequent heat transfer from the stretching surface is investigated with the aid of suitable transformation variables. Solutions for the velocity and temperature fields are obtained for some representative values of the unsteadiness parameter, variable viscosity parameter, mixed convection parameter and Eckert number. Typical velocity and temperature profiles, the local skin friction coefficient and the local heat transfer rate are presented at selected controlling parameters.     

Nonlinear vibration and instability of embedded double-walled boron nitride nanotubes based on nonlocal cylindrical shell theory

This paper investigates the nonlinear vibration and instability of the embedded double-walled boron nitride nanotubes (DWBNNTs) conveying viscous fluid based on nonlocal piezoelasticity cylindrical shell theory. The elastic medium is simulated as Winkler–Pasternak foundation, and adjacent layers interactions are assumed to have been coupled by van der Walls (vdW) force evaluated based on the Lennard–Jones model. The nonlinear strain terms based on Donnell’s theory are taken into account. The Hamilton’s principle is employed to obtain coupled differential equations, containing displacement and electric potential terms. Differential quadrature method (DQM) is applied to estimate the nonlinear frequency and critical fluid velocity for clamped supported mechanical and free electric potential boundary conditions at both ends of the DWBNNTs. Results indicated that some parameters including nonlocal parameter, elastic medium’s modulus, aspect ratio and vdW force have significant influence on the vibration and instability of the DWBNNT while the fluid viscosity effect is negligible. In addition, the low aspect ratio should be taken into account for DWBNNT in optimum design of nano/micro devices.     

Flow-induced and mechanical stability of cantilever carbon nanotubes subjected to an axial compressive load

In the present study, a modified nonlocal elasticity theory is used for flutter and divergence analyses of the cantilever carbon nanotubes (CNTs) conveying fluid. The CNT is embedded in viscoelastic foundation and is subjected to an axial compressive load acting at the free end. An extreme high-order governing equation as well as higher-order boundary conditions is developed using Hamilton's principle for vibration and stability analysis of the CNT. The numerical solution for flutter and divergence velocities is computed using the extended Galerkin method. The validity of the present analysis is confirmed by comparing with molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) and numerical solutions available in the literature. In the numerical results, the effects of nonlocal parameter, surface effects, viscoelastic foundation and compressive axial load on the stability boundaries of the system are investigated. The results show that the stability boundaries of the CNT are strongly dependent on the small scale coefficient and surface effects.     

Vibration behavior of simply supported inclined single-walled carbon nanotubes conveying viscous fluids flow using nonlocal Rayleigh beam model

A mathematical model is proposed to investigate the dynamic response of an inclined single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) subjected to a viscous fluid flow. The tangential interaction of the inside fluid flow with the equivalent continuum structure (ECS) of the SWCNT is taken into account via a slip boundary condition. The dimensionless equations of motion describing longitudinal and lateral vibrations of the fluid-conveying ECS are obtained in the context of nonlocal elasticity theory of Eringen. The unknown displacement fields are expressed in terms of admissible mode shapes associated with the ECS under simply supported conditions with immovable ends. Using Galerkin method, the discrete form of the equations of motion is derived. The time history plots of the normalized longitudinal and transverse displacements as well as the nonlocal axial force and bending moment of the midspan point of the SWCNT are provided for different levels of the fluid flow speed, small-scale parameter, and inclination angle of the SWCNT. The effects of small-scale parameter, inclination angle, speed and density of the fluid flow on the maximum dynamic amplitude factors of longitudinal and transverse displacements as well as those of nonlocal axial force and bending moment of the SWCNT are then studied in some detail.     

Fully-developed free-convective flow of micropolar and viscous fluids in a vertical channel

The problem of fully-developed laminar free-convection flow in a vertical channel is studied analytically with one region filled with micropolar fluid and the other region with a viscous fluid. Using the boundary and interface conditions proposed by previous investigators, analytical expressions for linear velocity, micro-rotation velocity and temperature have been obtained. Numerical results are presented graphically for the distribution of velocity, micro-rotation velocity and temperature fields for varying physical parameters such as the ratio of Grashof number to Reynolds number, viscosity ratio, width ratio, conductivity ratio and micropolar fluid material parameter. It is found that the effect of the micropolar fluid material parameter suppress the velocity whereas it enhances the micro-rotation velocity. The effect of the ratio of Grashof number to Reynolds number is found to enhance both the linear velocity and the micro-rotation velocity. The effects of the width ratio and the conductivity ratio are found to enhance the temperature distribution.     

Combined effect of magnetic field and heat absorption on unsteady free convection and heat transfer flow in a micropolar fluid past a semi-infinite moving plate with viscous dissipation using element free Galerkin method

The fully developed electrically conducting micropolar fluid flow and heat transfer along a semi-infinite vertical porous moving plate is studied including the effect of viscous heating and in the presence of a magnetic field applied transversely to the direction of the flow. The Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer model which includes the effects of boundary and inertia forces is employed. The differential equations governing the problem have been transformed by a similarity transformation into a system of non-dimensional differential equations which are solved numerically by element free Galerkin method. Profiles for velocity, microrotation and temperature are presented for a wide range of plate velocity, viscosity ratio, Darcy number, Forchhimer number, magnetic field parameter, heat absorption parameter and the micropolar parameter. The skin friction and Nusselt numbers at the plates are also shown graphically. The present problem has significant applications in chemical engineering, materials processing, solar porous wafer absorber systems and metallurgy.     

纵向磁场激励下简支输流微梁的动力学行为研究

受磁场驱动的微机电系统在工作中存在着力、磁、流-固耦合等非线性特征，其力学行为非常复杂，并将影响系统运行的安全性与可靠性.该文采用非局部Euler梁模型研究磁场激励下简支输流微梁（一种微机电系统）的动力学行为，通过动力系统分支理论和谐波平衡法来考察系统的稳定性和幅频特性曲线.结果表明，可以采用改变磁场强度、流速和阻尼的三重方式调节微机电系统的频率.研究中还发现，小尺度效应和磁场强度可以影响临界流速，阻尼的存在可以改变临界流速的个数和系统的分岔类型.     

Fluid flow in an inhomogeneous granular medium

The seepage of a compressible fluid in an inhomogeneous undeformable granular medium is investigated. It is assumed that the fluid flow in a porous space is described by the Navier–Stokes equations. It is shown that, in the case of an inhomogeneous velocity field, a tensor of additional effective stresses occurs in connection with the transfer of fluid particles in a transverse direction when flow occurs around the granules of the medium in a longitudinal direction. Using the fundamental propositions of Reynolds’ averaging theory and Prandtl's mixing path, the structure of the effective viscosity coefficient is determined and hypotheses are formulated which enable it to be assumed to be independent of the flow velocity. It is established by comparison with experimental data that the effective viscosity coefficient can exceed the viscosity coefficient of the flowing fluid by an order of magnitude. The equations of average motion are obtained, which in the case of an incompressible fluid have the form of the Navier–Stokes equations with body forces proportional to the velocity. It is established that, in addition to the well-known dimensionless flow numbers, there is a new number which characterizes the ratio of the Darcy porous drag forces to the effective viscosity forces. The proposed equations are extended to the case of the flow of an aerated fluid. The components of the angular momentum vector are used as the required functions instead of the components of the velocity vector. This enables a solving system of equations to be obtained, which, apart from the notation, is identical with the similar equations for the case of an incompressible fluid. The solution of a new problem of the fluid flow in a plane channel with permeable walls is presented using three models: Darcy's law for an incompressible and aerated fluid, and also of an aerated fluid taking the effective viscosity into account. It is established that, for the same pressure drop, the maximum flow rate corresponds to Darcy's law. Compressibility leads to its reduction, but by simultaneously taking into account the compressibility and the effective viscosity one obtains minimum values of the flow rate. The effective viscosity and aeration of the fluid has a considerable effect on the flow parameters.     

On stationary flows with energy dependent nonlocal viscosities

A nonlocal constitutive law for an incompressible viscous flow in which the viscosity depends on the total dissipation energy of the fluid is obtained as the limit case of very large thermal conductivity when the viscosity varies with the temperature. A rigorous analysis is illustrated within the Hilbertian framework for unidirectional stationary flows of Newtonian and Bingham fluids with heating by viscous dissipation. An extension to quasi-Newtonian fluids of power law type and with temperature dependent viscosities is obtained in the context of the heat equation with an L¹-term. The nonlocal model proposed by Ladyzhenskaya in 1966 as a modification of Navier-Stokes equations can be, in particular, obtained with this procedure. Bibliography: 14 titles.Dedicated to O. A. Ladyzhenskaya on the occasion of her 80th birthday__________Published in Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 295, 2003, pp. 99–117.     

Free convection effects on the oscillatory flow past a vertical porous plate in the presence of radiation for an optically thin fluid

The purpose of this work is to study the effect of transverse sinusoidal suction velocity on the flow and mass transfer on free convective oscillatory viscous and optically thin grey fluid over a porous vertical plate in the presence of radiation. The flow becomes three-dimensional due to the variation of suction velocity in the transverse direction. Analytical expressions for velocity and temperature fields are obtained using the perturbation technique. The governing equations has been transformed to ordinary differential equations. Numerical solutions are obtained for different values of radiation parameter, Grashof number and Schmidt number. It is found that non-dimensional velocity decreases with increase of radiation parameter, increases with increase of Grashof number, decreases with increase of Schmidt number and non-dimensional temperature decreases with the increase of radiation parameter.     

On the effectiveness of viscous dissipation and Joule heating on steady Magnetohydrodynamic heat and mass transfer flow over an inclined radiate isothermal permeable surface in the presence of thermophoresis

The combined effect of viscous dissipation and joule heating on steady Magnetohydrodynamic heat and mass transfer flow of viscous incompressible fluid over an inclined radiate isothermal permeable surface in the presence of thermophoresis is studied. Numerical results for the dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration profiles as well as the local skin-friction coefficient, the local Nusselt number and the local Stanton number are displayed graphically for various physical parameters. Comparisons with previously published work are performed and the results are found to be in very good agreement. Results show that rate of heat transfer is sensitive for increasing angle of inclination parameter for the case of fluid injection and it decreases with the increase of magnetic field parameter and Eckert number.     

General Nonlocal Model Describing the Laminar and Turbulent Flows of Viscous and Nonlinear Viscous Fluids and Its Investigation

A general nonlocal model describing the flows of viscous and nonlinear viscous fluids for both laminar and turbulent flows is introduced and studied. For this model, the viscosity of the fluid depends on the second invariant of the rate of the strain tensor and on a nonlocal (integral) characteristic of the flow. This characteristic is a vector that, in the simplest case, is an analog of the Reynolds number. For slow flows, the model turns into the Navier–Stokes equations or into the equations of a nonlinear viscous fluid. Problems on steady and nonsteady flows with mixed boundary conditions when velocities and surface forces are prescribed on different parts of the boundary are studied. Existence results without restrictions on the smallness of data and on the length of the interval of time are proved.     

Dynamic analysis of rotating double-tapered cantilever Timoshenko nano-beam using the nonlocal strain gradient theory

Based on the nonlocal strain gradient theory, the coupling nonlinear dynamic equations of a rotating double-tapered cantilever Timoshenko nano-beam are derived using the Hamilton principle. The equation of motion is discretized via the differential quadrature method. The effects of the angular velocity, nonlocal parameter, slenderness ratio, cross-section parameter, and taper ratios are examined and discussed. It is shown that taper ratios and cross-section parameter play a significant role in the vibration response of a rotating cantilever nano-beam. Further as rotational angular velocity increases, the taper ratios and cross-section parameter effect on the frequency response are increased for first modes of vibration.     

Nonlinear vibration and stability analysis of the curved microtube conveying fluid as a model of the micro coriolis flowmeters based on strain gradient theory

Micro coriolis flowmeters are extensively used in fluidic micro circuits and are of great interest to many researchers. Straight and curved coriolis flowmeters are common types of coriolis flowmeters. Therefore in the present work, the out-of- plane vibration and stability of curved micro tubes are investigated to study the dynamic behavior of curved coriolis flowmeters. The Hamilton principle is applied to derive a novel governing equation based on strain gradient theory for the curved micro tube conveying fluid. Lagrangian nonlinear strain is adopted to take into account the geometric nonlinearity and analyze hardening behavior as a result of the cubic nonlinear terms. Linear stability analysis is carried out to investigate the possibility of linear instabilities. Afterwards, the first nonlinear out-of-plane natural frequency is plotted versus fluid velocity to determine the influence of nonlinear terms and hardening behavior on stability of the system. The influence of the length scale parameter is studied by comparison of the results for classical, coupled stress and strain gradient theory. Finally the phase difference between two points at upstream and downstream is plotted versus fluid velocity. Linear relation between the phase difference and fluid velocity is noticed, thus the curved coriolis flowmeter can be calibrated to measure flow rate by measuring the phase difference between two points.     

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.     

Stability of oscillatory two-phase Couette flow

The authors investigate the stability of two-phase Couette flowof different liquids bounded between plane parallel plates.One of the plates has a time-dependent velocity in its own plane,which is composed of a constant steady part and a time-harmoniccomponent. In the absence of time-harmonic modulations, theflow can be unstable to an interfacial instability if the viscositiesare different, and the more viscous fluid occupies the thinnerof the two layers. Using Floquet theory, it is shown analyticallyin the limit of long waves that time-periodic modulations inthe basic flow can have a significant influence on flow stability.In particular, flows which are otherwise unstable for extensiveranges of viscosity ratios can be stabilized completely by theinclusion of background modulations, a finding that can haveuseful consequences in many practical applications.     

Periodic solution for nonlinear vibration of a fluid-conveying carbon nanotube,based on the nonlocal continuum theory by energy balance method

A nonlinear model is developed for the vibration of a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) based on Eringen’s nonlocal elasticity theory. The nanotube is assumed to be embedded in a Pasternak-type foundation with simply supported boundary conditions. The nonlinear equation of motion is solved by the energy balance method (EBM) to obtain a sufficiently accurate flow-induced frequency. It is demonstrated that the nonlinearity of the model makes a reasonable change to the frequency at high flow velocity and for the large deformations. Furthermore, the deviation of the frequency from the linear frequency will be exaggerated with an increase in the nonlocal parameter and a decrease of the Pasternak parameters. Ultimately, the results show that the nonlinearity of the model can be effectively tuned by applying axial tension to the nanotube.     

Viscous potential flow analysis of interfacial stability with mass transfer through porous media

The interfacial stability with mass transfer, surface tension, and porous media between two rigid planes will be investigated in the view of viscous potential flow analysis. A general dispersion relation is obtained. For Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, it is found that the stability criterion is given by a critical value of the relative velocity. On the other hand, in the absence of gravity the problem reduces to Brinkman model of the stability of two fluid layers between two rigid planes. Vanishing of the critical value of the relative velocity gives rise to a new dispersion relation for Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Formulas for the growth rates and neutral stability curve are also given and applied to air-water flows. The effects of viscosity, porous media, surface tension, and heat transfer are also discussed in relation to whether the system is potentially stable or unstable. The Darcian term, permeability’s and porosity effects are also concluded for Kelvin-Helmholtz and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities. The relation between porosity and dimensionless relative velocity is also investigated.     

非牛顿流体偏心环空螺旋流的解析解

石油和化工中许多问题需要求解非牛顿流体偏心环空螺旋流。本文全面地研究了幂律流体和宾汉流体在偏心环空中层流螺旋流的流动规律与流动状态的判别。在理论上,根据流体力学原理,运用数学方法,在作者同心环空螺旋流的理论基础上,通过对偏心环空螺旋流流场的无限细分法,给出了该流场的视粘度分布、速度分布、流量和压降方程,进而建立了判别流态的稳定性参数。