Perturbation solution to unsteady flow in a porous channel with expanding or contracting walls in the presence of a transverse magnetic field

An incompressible flow in a porous channel with expanding or contacting walls in the presence of a transverse magnetic field is considered. Using similarity transformations, the governing equations are reduced to the nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The exact similar solutions for the different cases of the expansion ratio and the Hartmann number are obtained with a singular perturbation method, and the associated behavior is discussed in detail.     

Homotopy analysis solutions for the asymmetric laminar flow in a porous channel with expanding or contracting walls

In this paper, the asymmetric laminar flow in a porous channel with expanding or contracting walls is investigated. The governing equations are reduced to ordinary ones by using suitable similar transformations. Homotopy analysis method (HAM) is employed to obtain the expres- sions for velocity fields. Graphs are sketched for values of parameters and associated dynamic characteristics, especially the expansion ratio, are analyzed in detail.     

Perturbation solutions for asymmetric laminar flow in porous channel with expanding and contracting walls

The cases of large Reynolds number and small expansion ratio for the asym- metric laminar flow through a two-dimensional porous expanding channel are considered. The Navier-Stokes equations are reduced to a nonlinear fourth-order ordinary differential equation by introducing a time and space similar transformation. A singular perturbation method is used for the large suction Reynolds case to obtain an asymptotic solution by matching outer and inner solutions. For the case of small expansion ratios, we are able to obtain asymptotic solutions by double parameter expansion in either a small Reynolds number or a small asymmetric parameter. The asymptotic solutions indicate that the Reynolds number and expansion ratio play an important role in the flow behavior. Nu- merical methods are also designed to confirm the correctness of the present asymptotic solutions.     

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Exact solutions of incompressible Couette flow with porous walls for slightly rarefied gases

In this work, the transient incompressible Couette flow and steady-state temperature profiles between two porous parallel plates for slightly rarefied gases are solved exactly. The first-order approximation of slip velocity at the boundaries is used in the formulation. The solution is also applicable for Couette flow in micro-channels under certain circumstances. The influences of mass transfer and a nondimensional slip parameter on slip velocities are discussed. It is also found that the transient slip velocities at the walls are greatly different from the steady-state velocity slips. The influences of velocity slip and temperature slip parameters on the temperature distribution and heat transfer at the walls are analyzed and discussed. It is shown that the slip parameters can greatly change the temperature profiles and heat transfer characteristics at the walls.     

Numerical study of magnetohydrodynamic laminar flow separation in a channel with smooth expansion

The flow of an electrically conducting incompressible viscous fluid in a plane channel with smooth expansion in the presence of a uniform transverse magnetic field has been analysed. A solution technique for the governing magnetohydrodynamic equations in primitive variable formulation has been developed. A co‐ordinate transformation has been employed to map the infinite irregular domain into a finite regular computational domain. The governing equations are discretized using finite‐difference approximations in staggered grid. Pressure Poisson equation and pressure correction formulae are derived and solved numerically. It is found that with increase in the magnetic field, the size of the flow separation zone diminishes and for sufficiently large magnetic field, the separation zone disappears completely. The peak u‐velocity decreases with increase in the magnetic field. It is also found that the asymmetric flow in a symmetric geometry, which occurs at moderate Reynolds numbers, becomes symmetric with sufficient increase in the transverse magnetic field. Thus, a transverse magnetic field of suitable strength has a stabilizing effect in controlling flow separation, as also in delaying the transition to turbulence. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Slip effects on the peristaltic flow of a Jeffrey fluid in an asymmetric channel under the effect of induced magnetic field

In the present study, we investigated the effects of slip and induced magnetic field on the peristaltic flow of a Jeffrey fluid in an asymmetric channel. The governing two‐dimensional equations for momentum, magnetic force function and energy are simplified by using the assumptions of long wavelength and low but finite Reynolds number. The reduced problem has been solved by Adomian decomposition method (ADM) and closed form solutions have been presented. Further, the exact solution of the proposed problem has also been computed and the mathematical comparison shows that both solutions are almost similar. The effects of pertinent parameters on the pressure rise per wavelength are investigated using numerical integration. The expressions for pressure rise, friction force, velocity, temperature, magnetic force function and the stream lines against various physical parameters of interest are shown graphically. Moreover, the behavior of different kinds of wave shape are also discussed. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Laminar flow in a uniformly porous channel with an applied transverse magnetic field

Summary The flow of a viscous incompressible and electrically conducting fluid in a two-dimensional uniformly porous channel, having fluid sucked or injected with a constant velocity through its walls, is considered in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. A solution for small Reynolds number has been given by the authors in a previous paper. A solution valid for large suction Reynolds number and all values of Hartmann number is presented here and the resulting boundary layer is discussed. Also Yuan's solution for large negativeR is extened to include small values ofM ₂/R.Nomenclature x, y distances parallel and perpendicular to the channel walls - u, v velocity components inx, y directions - p pressure - density - U(0) entrance velocity atx=0 - V suction velocity at the wall - V velocity field - J current density - E electric field - H magnetic field - H ₀ applied magnetic field - electrical conductivity - _m magnetic permeability - 2h distance between the porous walls - kinematic viscosity - y/h - B _m H - B _{0 m}H₀ - R Vh/, Reynolds number - M _mH₀ h(/)^1/2, Hartmann number - M/R - a - b - z 1–     

Finite element computations of two-dimensional arterial flow in the presence of a transverse magnetic field

A finite element solution of the Navier-Stokes equations for steady flow under the magnetic effect through a double-branched two-dimensional section of a three-dimensional model of the canine aorta is discussed. The numerical scheme involves transforming the physical co-ordinates to a curvilinear boundary-fitted co-ordinate system. The shear stress at the wall is calculated for a Reynolds number of 1000 with the branch-to-main aortic flow rate ratio as a parameter. The results are compared with earlier works involving experimental data and found to be in reasonable qualitative agreement. The steady flow, shear stress and branch flow under the effect of a magnetic field have been discussed in detail.     

Peristaltic transport of a Jeffrey fluid under the effect of magnetic field in an asymmetric channel

The peristaltic flow of a Jeffrey fluid in an asymmetric channel is studied under long wavelength and low Reynolds number assumptions. The fluid is electrically conducting by a transverse magnetic field. The channel asymmetry is produced by choosing the peristaltic wave train on the walls to have different amplitudes and phase. The flow is investigated in a wave frame of reference moving with the velocity of the wave. The expressions for stream function, axial velocity and axial pressure gradient have been obtained. The effects of various emerging parameters on the flow characteristics are shown and discussed with the help of graphs. The pumping characteristics, axial pressure gradient and trapping phenomenon have been studied. Comparison of various wave forms (namely sinusoidal, triangular, square and trapezoidal) on the flow is discussed.     

MHD peristaltic flow of a third order fluid in an asymmetric channel

This study is concerned with peristaltic flow of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluid in an asymmetric channel. Asymmetry in the flow is induced by waves on the channel walls having different amplitudes and phase. A systematic approach based on an expansion of Deborah number is used for the solution series. Analytic expressions have been developed for the stream function, axial velocity and axial pressure gradient. The pressure rise over a wavelength has been addressed through numerical integration. Particular attention has been given to the effects of Hartman number and Deborah number on the pressure rise over a wavelength and the trapping phenomenon. Several limiting solutions of interest are obtained as the special cases of the presented analysis by taking the appropriate parameter(s) to be zero. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Magnetohydrodynamic peristaltic flow of a hyperbolic tangent fluid in a vertical asymmetric channel with heat transfer

In the present paper we discuss the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) peristaltic flow of a hyperbolic tangent fluid model in a vertical asymmetric channel under a zero Reynolds number and long wavelength approximation. Exact solution of the temperature equation in the absence of dissipation term has been computed and the analytical ex- pression for stream function and axial pressure gradient are established. The flow is analyzed in a wave frame of reference moving with the velocity of wave. The expression for pressure rise has been computed numerically. The physical features of pertinent parameters are analyzed by plotting graphs and discussed in detail.     

Experimental study on turbulent features in the negative transport region of asymmetric plane channel flow

Turbulent features of streamwise and vertical components of velocity in the negative transport region of asymmetric plane channel flow have been studied experimentally in details. Experiments show that turbulent fluctuations in negative transport region are suppressed, and their probability distributions are far from Gaussian. Besides, the skewness factors attain their negative maxima at the position of the maximum mean velocity, whereas the flatness factors attain their positive maxima at the same position. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (19872043)     

Heat transfer in laminar flow in a uniformly porous channel with an applied transverse magnetic field

Summary The steady laminar flow of an incompressible, viscous, and electrically conducting fluid between two parallel porous plates with equal permeability has been discussed by Terrill and Shrestha [6]. In this paper, using the solution of [6] for the velocity field, the heat transfer problems of (i) uniform wall temperature and (ii) uniform heat flux at wall are solved.For small suction Reynolds numbers we find that the Nusselt number, with increasing Reynolds number, increases for case (i) and decreases for (ii).Nomenclature stream function - 2h channel width - x, y distances measured parallel, perpendicular to the channel walls - U velocity of fluid in the x direction at x=0 - V constant velocity of suction at the wall - nondimensional distance, y/h - nondimensional distance, x/h - f() function defined in (1) - density - coefficient of kinematic viscosity - R suction Reynolds number, V h/ - Re channel Reynolds number, 4U h/ - B ₀ magnetic induction - electrical conductivity - M Hartmann number, B ₀ h(/)^1/2 - K constant defined in (3) - A constant defined in (5) - 4R/Re - q local heat flux per unit area at the wall - k thermal conductivity - T temperature of the fluid - X –1/ ln(1–) - C _p specific heat at constant pressure - j current density - Pr Prandtl number, C _p/k - P mass transfer Péclet number, R Pr - Pe mass transfer Péclet number, P/ - T ₀ temperature at x=0 - T _H() temperature in the fully developed region - T _h(X, ) temperature in the entrance region - Y _n () eigenfunctions, uniform wall temperature - _n eigenvalues - e() function defined by (24) - B _n 2/3 _n ² - A _n constants defined by (28) - a _2m constants defined by (30) - F _n () eigenfunctions, uniform wall heat flux - a _n , b _n , c _n , d _n , e _n constants defined by (45) and (48) - S a parameter, U ²/q - h ₁ heat transfer coefficient - T _m mean temperature - Nu Nusselt number - Nu _T Nusselt number, uniform wall temperature - Nu _q Nusselt number, uniform wall heat flux     

Numerical analysis of fluid flow and mass transfer in a channel with a porous bottom wall

The flow of a solution between parallel plates is considered. The bottom plate is porous, while the top one is an impermeable solid. A computer program based on the control volume approach was developed to analyse the flow and concentration fields. The effects of the slip at the porous wall on the velocity and particle concentration distributions were investigated. It was observed that as the slip increases, the concentration on the porous wall decreases and the maximum velocity moves towards the porous wall. The concentration on the porous wall increases in the flow direction. This increase in the particle concentration along the porous wall may cause a reduction of the porosity and hence a variation in the suction rate along the porous wall. In order to take this effect into account, a linearly varying transverse velocity along the porous wall was considered. The results were compared with the data available in the literature.     

Peristaltic flow of Johnson-Segalman fluid in asymmetric channel with convective boundary conditions

This work is concerned with the peristaltic transport of the Johnson-Segalman fluid in an asymmetric channel with convective boundary conditions. The mathematical modeling is based upon the conservation laws of mass, linear momentum, and energy. The resulting equations are solved after long wavelength and low Reynolds number are used. The results for the axial pressure gradient, velocity, and temperature profiles are obtained for small Weissenberg number. The expressions of the pressure gra-dient, velocity, and temperature are analyzed for various embedded parameters. Pumping and trapping phenomena are also explored.     

Effects of induced magnetic field on peristaltic flow of Johnson-Segalman fluid in a vertical symmetric channel

In this paper, the influence of heat transfer and induced magnetic field on peristaltic flow of a Johnson-Segalman fluid is studied. The purpose of the present investigation is to study the effects of induced magnetic field on the peristaltic flow of non-Newtonian fluid. The two-dimensional equations of a Johnson-Segalman fluid are simplified by assuming a long wavelength and a low Reynolds number. The obtained equations are solved for the stream function, magnetic force function, and axial pressure gradient by using a regular perturbation method. The expressions for the pressure rise, temperature, induced magnetic field, pressure gradient, and stream function are sketched and interpreted for various embedded parameters.     

Couette flow of a Bingham plastic in a channel with equally porous parallel walls

In the present paper the flow of a Bingham fluid between two parallel porous walls is studied. One of the walls moves with constant velocity parallel to the other, which is fixed, while a longitudinal pressure gradient exists, as well as a transverse flow field due the porosity of the walls. An exact analytical solution is given for the u-velocity field, which has four different forms depending on the values of the three dimensionless parameters, which are the Bingham, Couette and Reynolds numbers.     

Homotopy analysis solution for micropolar fluid flow through porous channel with expanding or contracting walls of different permeabilities

The flow of a micropolar fluid through a porous channel with expanding or contracting walls of different permeabilities is investigated. Two cases are considered, in which opposing walls undergo either uniform or non-uniform motion. In the first case,the homotopy analysis method (HAM) is used. to obtain the expressions for the velocity and micro-rotation fields. Graphs are sketched for some parameters. The results show that the expansion ratio and the different permeabilities have important effects on the dynamic characteristics of the fluid. Following Xu's model, in the second case which is more general, the wall expansion ratio varies with time. Under this assumption, the governing equations are transformed into nonlinear partial differential equations that can also be solved analytically by the HAM. In the process, both algebraic and exponential models are considered to describe the evolution of α(t) from the initial state α0 to the final state α1. As a result, the time-dependent solutions are found to approach the steady state very rapidly. The results show that the time-dependent variation of the wall expansion ratio can be ignored because of its limited effects.     

Analytic solutions of incompressible laminar flow in the inlet region of a pipe

The laminar analytic solutions of velocities and pressure in the central zone of the inlet region of pipe flow are given under the condition of uniform inflow, based on the Navier-Stokes equations of incompressible viscous flow.