Similarity solution of boundary layer stagnation-point flow towards a heated porous stretching sheet saturated with a nanofluid with heat absorption/generation and suction/blowing: A Lie group analysis

In this paper, heat and mass transfer analysis for boundary layer stagnation-point flow over a stretching sheet in a porous medium saturated by a nanofluid with internal heat generation/absorption and suction/blowing is investigated. The governing partial differential equation and auxiliary conditions are converted to ordinary differential equations with the corresponding auxiliary conditions via Lie group analysis. The boundary layer temperature, concentration and nanoparticle volume fraction profiles are then determined numerically. The influences of various relevant parameters, namely, thermophoresis parameter Nt, Brownian motion parameter Nb, Lewis number Le, suction/injection parameter S, permeability parameter k₁, source/sink parameter λ and Prandtl parameter Pr on temperature and concentration as well as wall heat flux and wall mass flux are discussed. Comparison with published results is presented.     

Similarity solutions for mixed convection boundary layer flow over a permeable horizontal flat plate

The effects of suction and injection on steady laminar mixed convection boundary layer flow over a permeable horizontal flat plate in a viscous and incompressible fluid is investigated in this paper. The similarity solutions of the governing boundary layer equations are obtained for some values of the suction and injection parameter f₀, the constant exponent n of the wall temperature as well as the mixed convection parameter λ. The resulting system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations is solved numerically for both assisting and opposing flow regimes using a finite-difference scheme known as the Keller-box method. Numerical results for the reduced skin friction coefficient, the reduced local Nusselt number, and the velocity and temperature profiles are obtained for various values of the parameters considered. Dual solutions are found to exist for the opposing flow.     

Magnetohydrodynamic shear flow along a flat plate with uniform suction or blowing

An analysis is made of the steady shear flow of an incompressible viscous electrically conducting fluid past an electrically insulating porous flat plate in the presence of an applied uniform transverse magnetic field. It is shown that steady shear flow exists for suction at the plate only when the square of the suction parameter S is less than the magnetic parameter Q. In this case the velocity at a given point increases with increase in either the magnetic field or suction velocity. The shear stress at the plate increases with increase in either S or the free-stream shear-rate parameter σ₁ or Q. The analysis further reveals that solution exists for steady shear flow past a porous flat plate subject to blowing only when the square of the blowing parameter S₁ is less than Q. It is found that the induced magnetic field at a given location decreases with increase in Q. Further the wall shear stress decreases with increase in S₁. No steady shear flow is possible for blowing at the plate when S₁² > Q. Received: June 16, 2004; revised: October 24, 2004     

A Variational Finite Element Model for Large-Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Flows

The authors introduce a new Large Eddy Simulation model in a channel,based on the projection on finite element spaces as filtering operation in its variational form,for a given triangulation{Th}h>0.The eddy viscosity is expressed in terms of the friction velocity in the boundary layer due to the wall,and is of a standard sub grid-model form outside the boundary layer.The mixing length scale is locally equal to the grid size.The computational domain is the channel without the linear sub-layer of the boundary layer.The no-slip boundary condition(or BC for short)is replaced by a Navier(BC)at the computational wall.Considering the steady state case,the authors show that the variational finite element model they have introduced,has a solution(vh,ph)h>0that converges to a solution of the steady state Navier-Stokes equation with Navier BC.     

Falkner-Skan equation for flow past a moving wedge with suction or injection

The characteristics of steady two-dimensional laminar boundary layer flow of a viscous and incompressible fluid past a moving wedge with suction or injection are theoretically investigated. The transformed boundary layer equations are solved numerically using an implicit finite-difference scheme known as the Keller-box method. The effects of Falkner-Skan power-law parameter (m), suction/injection parameter (f0) and the ratio of free stream velocity to boundary velocity parameter (λ) are discussed in detail. The numerical results for velocity distribution and skin friction coefficient are given for several values of these parameters. Comparisons with the existing results obtained by other researchers under certain conditions are made. The critical values off ₀,m and λ are obtained numerically and their significance on the skin friction and velocity profiles is discussed. The numerical evidence would seem to indicate the onset of reverse flow as it has been found by Riley and Weidman in 1989 for the Falkner-Skan equation for flow past an impermeable stretching boundary.     

On the stagnation-point flow towards a stretching sheet with homogeneous–heterogeneous reactions effects

The effects of homogeneous–heterogeneous reactions on the steady boundary layer flow near the stagnation point on a stretching surface is studied. The possible steady-states of this system are analyzed in the case when the diffusion coefficients of both reactant and auto catalyst are equal. The strength of this effect is represented by the dimensionless parameter K and K_s. It is shown that for a fluid of small kinematic viscosity, a boundary layer is formed when the stretching velocity is less than the free stream velocity and an inverted boundary layer is formed when the stretching velocity exceeds the free stream velocity. The uniqueness of this problem lies on the fact that the solutions are possible for all values of λ > 0 (stretching surface), while for λ < 0 (shrinking surface), solutions are possible only for its limited range.     

Time-discretized steady compressible Navier–Stokes equations with inflow and outflow boundaries

The time-discretized steady compressible Navier–Stokes equations in n-dimensional bounded domains with the velocity specified only at the inflow boundary are considered. The existence and uniqueness of L ^p solutions are proved for p > n. For time-discretized steady flows, results of Kweon and Kellogg and of Kweon and Song are extended in a manner that allows for more general domains and for density-dependent viscosity coefficients. Moreover, we only require p > n which is a critical barrier in the previous works.     

Global solutions of the heat equation with a nonlinear boundary condition

We consider the heat equation with a nonlinear boundary condition, $$(P) \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \partial_t u = \Delta u, & x \in \Omega, \quad t > 0, \\ \partial_\nu u=u^p, & x \in \partial \Omega,\quad t > 0,\\ u (x,0) = \phi (x),& x\in\Omega, \end{array}\right.$$ where ${\Omega = \{x = (x^{\prime},x_N) \in {\bf R}^{N} : x_N > 0\}, N \ge 2, \partial_t = \partial{/}\partial t , \partial_\nu = -\partial{/}\partial x_{N}}$ , p > 1 + 1/N, and (N ? 2)p < N. In this paper we give a complete classification of the large time behaviors of the nonnegative global solutions of (P).     

Falkner-Skan equation for flow past a stretching surface with suction or blowing: Analytical solutions

The simultaneous effects of suction and injection on tangential movement of a nonlinear power-law stretching surface governed by laminar boundary layer flow of a viscous and incompressible fluid beneath a non-uniform free with stream pressure gradient is considered. The self-similar flow is governed by Falkner-Skan equation, with transpiration parameter γ, wall slip velocity λ and stretching sheet (or pressure gradient) parameter β. The exact solution for β = −1 and three closed form asymptotic solutions for β large, large suction γ, and λ → 1 have also been presented. Dual solutions are found for β = −1 for each value of the transpiration parameter, including the non-permeable surface, for each prescribed value of the wall slip velocity λ. The large β asymptotic solution also dual with respect to wall slip velocity λ, but do not depend on suction and blowing. The critical values of γ, β and λ are obtained and their significance on the skin friction and velocity profiles is discussed. An approximate solution by integral method for a trial velocity profile is presented and results are compared with the exact solutions.     

Steady laminar boundary layer of a viscous incompressible fluid in a convergent channel with distributed suction at the wall

In this paper an attempt has been made to find the solution of the boundary layer equations for two-dimensional laminar steady motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in a convergent channel (sink flow) with suction at the wall. Suction velocity v₀ (x) ～ 1/x has been imposed at the wall and an approximate solution has been obtained with the help of similarity transformation. A solution valid at a large distance from the wall and a series solution valid near the wall have been obtained and the two solutions have been joined at a suitable point. It is seen that the boundary layer thickness diminishes as the value of the suction parameter\(\lambda ( = v_0 x/\sqrt {u_1 v} )\) increases. The velocity profile and the boundary layer parameters for solid wall (λ = 0) obtained from this solution are found to be in close agreement with the profile and the parameters calculated from the known exact solution for the solid wall problem.     

From single obstacles to wall roughness: some fundamental investigations based on DNS results for turbulent channel flow

Turbulent flow through a plane channel with only one smooth wall is analyzed based on DNS results for three Reynolds numbers. The opposite wall has 2D bars of size k ×  k attached with the distance to each other as the crucial parameter. When they are close together they act as a wall roughness whereas they are single obstacles in character when they are far apart. These two extreme cases show very different coherent structures in the vicinity of the wall attached bars. The categories single obstacles and wall roughness are introduced as an alternative to the often used categorization in terms of k- and d-type roughness. Visualization of the coherent structures is achieved by introducing constant local entropy generation as a parameter. Finally it is discussed whether results gained in a channel with one rough wall can be transferred to the more realistic case when both walls are rough.     

Couette flow of a stratified fluid with suction varying along a boundary

A viscous incompressible fluid between two plane boundaries is stratified by maintaining the planes at different temperatures. The upper plane moves with a uniform velocity. The suction/injection mechanism with constant injection velocity at the upper plane and suction velocity varying sinusoidally along the lower plane with a wave numberk is introduced at the boundaries. The steady linearised equations are solved using similarity variables for the velocity components. The wave numberk is shown to be effective in controlling the boundary layer thickness.     

Irregular discrepancy behavior of lacunary series

In 1975 Philipp showed that for any increasing sequence (n _k ) of positive integers satisfying the Hadamard gap condition n _k+1/n _k  > q > 1, k ≥ 1, the discrepancy D _N of (n _k x) mod 1 satisfies the law of the iterated logarithm $$ 1/4 \leq {\mathop {\rm lim\,sup} \limits _{N\to\infty}}\, N D_N(n_k x) (N \log \log N)^{-1/2}\leq C_q\quad \textup{a.e.}$$ Recently, Fukuyama computed the value of the lim sup for sequences of the form n _k = θ ^k , θ > 1, and in a preceding paper the author gave a Diophantine condition on (n _k ) for the value of the limsup to be equal to 1/2, the value obtained in the case of i.i.d. sequences. In this paper we utilize this number-theoretic connection to construct a lacunary sequence (n _k ) for which the lim sup in the LIL for the star-discrepancy ${D_N^*}$ is not a constant a.e. and is not equal to the lim sup in the LIL for the discrepancy D _N .     

Positive solutions for slightly super-critical elliptic equations in contractible domainsSolutions positives pour l'équation Δu+u(n+2)/(n−2)+ε=0 en ouverts contractibles

We give examples of bounded domains $\text{Ω}$, even contractible, having the following property: there exists $\text{k}\text{?}\text{(Ω)}$ such that, for every integer $\text{k?}\text{k}\text{?}\text{(Ω)}$, problem $\text{P(ε,Ω)}$ below, for ε>0 small enough, has at least one solution blowing up as ε→0 at exactly k points. We also prove that the blow-up points tend to some points of $\text{?Ω}$ as k→∞. To cite this article: R. Molle, D. Passaseo, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 335 (2002) 459–462.     

On multiple sum and product sets of finite sets of integers

Let $\text{A?}\text{Z}$ be a finite set of integers of cardinality |A|=N?2. Given a positive integer k, denote kA (resp. A^(k)) the set of all sums (resp. products) of k elements of A. We prove that for all b>1, there exists k=k(b) such that max(|kA|,|A^(k)|)>N^b. This answers affirmably questions raised in Erd?s and Szemerédi (Stud. Pure Math., 1983, pp. 213–218), Elekes et al. (J. Number Theory 83 (2) (2002) 194–201) and recently, by S. Konjagin (private communication). The method is based on harmonic analysis techniques in the spirit of Chang (Ann. Math. 157 (2003) 939–957) and combinatorics on graphs. To cite this article: J. Bourgain, M.-C. Chang, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 337 (2003).     

Avoiding Pairs of Partial Latin Squares

We show that two partial latin squares of order mk are simultaneously avoidable if m > 4 and ${k>\frac{m^3(m^2-1)}{2}}$ . If m = 4, we show the same conclusion when k > 56.     

Semiclassical solutions of Schrödinger equations with magnetic fields and critical nonlinearities

We study the following nonlinear Schrödinger equations $$\begin{array}{lll}(-i\varepsilon\nabla+A(x))^2 w + V(x)w = W(x)g(|w|)w; \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad (0.1)\\(-i\varepsilon\nabla+A(x))^2 w + V(x)w = W(x)\left(g(|w|)+|w|^{2^*-2}\right)w,\quad \quad \quad\,\,(0.2)\end{array}$$ for ${w \in H^1\left( \mathbb{R}^N, \mathbb{C} \right)}$ , where g(|w|)w is super linear and subcritical, 2* = 2N/(N ? 2) if N > 2 and = ∞ if N = 2, min V > 0 and inf W > 0. Under proper assumptions we explore the existence and concentration phenomena of semiclassical solutions of (0.1). The most interesting result obtained here refers to the critical case. We establish the existence and describe the concentration of semiclassical ground states of (0.2) provided either min V <  τ ₀ for some τ₀ > 0, or ${\max W > \kappa_{0}}$ for some ${\kappa_0 > 0}$ .     

Nano boundary layer equation with nonlinear Navier boundary condition

At the micro and nano scale the standard no slip boundary condition of classical fluid mechanics does not apply and must be replaced by a boundary condition that allows some degree of tangential slip. In this study the classical laminar boundary layer equations are studied using Lie symmetries with the no-slip boundary condition replaced by a nonlinear Navier boundary condition. This boundary condition contains an arbitrary index parameter, denoted by n>0, which appears in the coefficients of the ordinary differential equation to be solved. The case of a boundary layer formed in a convergent channel with a sink, which corresponds to n=1/2, is solved analytically. Another analytical but non-unique solution is found corresponding to the value n=1/3, while other values of n for n>1/2 correspond to the boundary layer formed in the flow past a wedge and are solved numerically. It is found that for fixed slip length the velocity components are reduced in magnitude as n increases, while for fixed n the velocity components are increased in magnitude as the slip length is increased.     

Doubly nonlinear parabolic equations with measure data

The existence of solutions to the initial boundary value problem for the equation $$u_{t}-{\rm div}(u^m|Du|^{p-2}Du)=\lambda|Du^q|^{l}+u^{\alpha},$$ with zero-Dirichlit boundary condition and Radon measure as initial condition is studied, where m > 0, p > 1, λ, q, l, and α in various situations.