Fluctuating flow of an elastico-viscous fluid along an infinite porous plate with an applied magnetic field

The problem of oscillating free stream flow of an elastico-viscous, incompressible, and electrically conducting fluid along an infinite plate with suction varying periodically with time, is considered in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. The effect of the elasticity of the fluid, the magnetic fluid, and the fluctuation of suction velocity on the velocity and the skin friction is examined.     

Three dimensional free convection flow and heat transfer along a porous vertical plate

The free convection flow along a vertical porous plate with transverse sinusoidal suction velocity distribution is investigated. Due to this type of suction velocity at the plate the flow becomes three dimensional one. For the asymptotic flow condition, the wall shear stress in the direction of main flow for different values of buoyancy parameter G is obtained. For G=0, the skin friction in the direction of free stream and the rate of heat transfer from the plate to the fluid are given. It is found that these results differ from those obtained by Gersten and Gross.     

Non-Darcian Forced Convection Flow of Viscous Dissipating Fluid over a Flat Plate Embedded in a Porous Medium

In this study, laminar boundary layer flow over a flat plate embedded in a fluid-saturated porous medium in the presence of viscous dissipation, inertia effect and suction/injection is analyzed using the Keller box finite difference method. The flat plate is assumed to be held at constant temperature. The non-Darcian effects of convection, boundary and inertia are considered. Results for the local heat transfer parameter and the local skin friction parameter as well as the velocity and temperature profiles are presented for various values of the governing parameters. The non-Darcian effects are shown to decrease the velocity and to increase the temperature. It is also shown that the local heat transfer parameter and the local skin friction parameter increase due to suction of fluid while injection reverses this trend. It is disclosed that the effect of the viscous dissipation for negative values of Ec (T _w < T _∞) is to enhance the heat transfer coefficient while the opposite is true for positive values of Ec (T _w > T _∞). The results are compared with those available in the existing literature and an excellent agreement is obtained.     

Stokes problem for elastico-viscous fluid

Summary An approximate solution to the flow past an impulsively started infinite plate in an elastico-viscous fluid is derived for the velocity and shearing stress. It is observed that the velocity increases with increasing the elastic parameterk and the shearing stress decreases with increasingk.

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Zusammenfassung Für den Fall der Strömung längs einer ruckartig in Bewegung gesetzten unendlichen Platte in einer viscoelastischen Flüssigkeit ist eine Näherungslösung für Geschwindigkeit und Scherspannungabgeleitet. Dabeiwurde beobachtet, daß die Geschwindigkeit mit Zunahme des Elastizitätsparametersk ansteigt und die Scherspannung mit zunehmendemk abnimmt.

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Heat transfer by laminar flow of an elastico-viscous liquid in a circular cylinder with linearly varying wall temperature

Summary The heat transfer by laminar flow of elastico-viscous liquids in a circular cylinder with linearly varying wall temperature has been studied by using the constitutive equation of motion for elastico-viscous liquids and energy equation. The flow phenomenon are characterized by two parameters R _c and S. The presence of the elastic elements in the viscous liquid considerably affects the velocity and temperature distributions.     

Nonsimilar boundary-layer flow over a stationary permeable plate in a rotating fluid with a magnetic field

Summary  The nonsimilar boundary-layer flow and heat transfer over a stationary permeable surface in a rotating fluid in the presence of magnetic field, mass transfer and free stream velocity are studied. The parabolic partial differential equations governing the flow have been solved numerically by using a difference–differential method. For small streamwise distance, these partial differential equations are also solved by a perturbation technique with Shanks transformation. For uniform mass transfer, analytical solutions are obtained. The surface skin friction coefficients and the Nusselt number increase with the magnetic field, suction and streamwise distance from the leading edge of the plate except the skin friction coefficient in the y-direction which decreases with the increasing magnetic field. Received 4 December 2001; accepted for publication 24 September 2002     

Soret and Dufour effects on unsteady MHD flow past an infinite vertical porous plate with thermal radiation

The objective of the present study is to investigate the effect of flow parameters on the free convection and mass transfer of an unsteady magnetohydrodynamic flow of an electrically conducting, viscous, and incompressible fluid past an infinite vertical porous plate under oscillatory suction velocity and thermal radiation. The Dufour （diffusion thermo） and Soret （thermal diffusion） effects are taken into account. The problem is solved numerically using the finite element method for the velocity, the temperature, and the concentration field. The expression for the skin friction, the rate of heat and mass transfer is obtained. The results are presented numerically through graphs and tables for the externally cooled plate （Gr 〉 0） and the externally heated plate （Gr 〈 0） to observe the effects of various parameters encountered in the equations.     

On the impulsive motion of a flat plate with suction

Summary The impulsive motion of a flat plate through a viscous incompressible fluid with time-dependent suction applied normally at the plate is considered. An approximate solution is obtained which describes the motion of the fluid during the initial stage of the motion of the plate, and also one which describes the motion at later stages when the suction velocity is large. The particular case when the suction velocity depends linearly on the time is considered in detail.     

Effects of viscous dissipation and heat generation (absorption) in a thermal boundary layer of a non-Newtonian fluid over a continuously moving permeable flat plate

The problem of boundary-layer flow and heat transfer of a non-Newtonian power-law fluid over a moving porous infinite flat plate in the presence of viscous dissipation and heat generation or absorption is investigated analytically. It is assumed that both the momentum and the energy equations are coupled by the stress friction factor, and an assumption is introduced regarding the heat-transfer index. It is found that exact analytical solutions for velocity and temperature exist only for pseudoplastic fluids in the presence of suction at the surface. The effects of the suction parameter, Eckert number, and the heat generation or absorption parameter on the velocity and temperature profiles, as well as on the skin-friction coefficient and Nusselt number are discussed.     

Natural convection near a vertical plate with ramped wall temperature

The unsteady natural convective flow of an incompressible viscous fluid near a vertical plate has been considered. It is assumed that the bounding plate has a ramped temperature profile. The exact solutions of the energy and momentum equations, under the usual Boussinesq approximation, have been obtained in closed form. There are two different solutions for the fluid velocity—one valid for the fluids of Prandtl numbers different from unity, and the other for which the Prandtl number is unity. The variations of the fluid temperature, velocity as well as the Nusselt number and wall skin friction have been presented graphically. The natural convection near a ramped temperature plate has also been compared with the flow near a plate with constant temperature.     

Unsteady flow in the Ekman layer of an elastico-viscous liquid

The transient flow in the Ekman layer of an elastico-viscous liquid near a flat plate is discussed. Initially the fluid and the plate were rotating together and the plate then suddently starts moving with a uniform velocity in its own plane relative to the rotating frame of reference. It is shown that the ultimate steady state is reached through decay of inertial oscillations whose frequency decreases with increase in the elastic parameter.     

化学反应对竖直平板边界磁流体动力学微极流体滑流的影响

Heat and mass transfer effects on the unsteady flow of a micropolar fluid through a porous medium bounded by a semi-infinite vertical plate in a slip-flow regime are studied taking into account a homogeneous chemical reaction of the first order. A uniform magnetic field acts perpendicular to the porous surface absorb micropolar fluid with a suction velocity varying with time. The free stream velocity follows an exponentially increasing or decreasing small perturbation law. Using the approximate method, the expressions for the velocity microrotation, temperature, and concentration are obtained. Futher, the results of the skin friction coefficient, the couple stress coefficient, and the rate of heat and mass transfer at the wall are presented with various values of fluid properties and flow conditions.     

Effect of suction upon unsteady laminar free convection flow on a vertical infinite flat plate

Summary Unsteady laminar free convection flow past a vertical infinite flat plate subjected to suction is considered. Exact solutions of momentum and energy equations are obtained in two cases: (1) When the plate temperature is proportional to some power of time and (2) when the heat flux at the plate is proportional to some power of time. It is assumed that the suction velocity varies as (time)^–1/2. Expressions for the temperature and velocity profiles are obtained in closed forms in both the cases. Effect of suction on velocity, temperature, skin friction and rate of head transfer is studied for Prandtl numbers 0.02, 0.1, 0.72, 1 and 10.     

Unsteady free convection flow over an infinite vertical porous plate due to the combined effects of thermal and mass diffusion,magnetic field and Hall currents

The unsteady free convection flow over an infinite vertical porous plate, which moves with time-dependent velocity in an ambient fluid, has been studied. The effects of the magnetic field and Hall current are included in the analysis. The buoyancy forces arise due to both the thermal and mass diffusion. The partial differential equations governing the flow have been solved numerically using both the implicit finite difference scheme and the difference-differential method. For the steady case, analytical solutions have also been obtained. The effect of time variation on the skin friction, heat transfer and mass transfer is very significant. Suction increases the skin friction coefficient in the primary flow, and also the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers, but the skin friction coefficient in the secondary flow is reduced. The effect of injection is opposite to that of suction. The buoyancy force, injection and the Hall parameter induce an overshoot in the velocity profiles in the primary flow which changes the velocity gradient from a negative to a positive value, but the magnetic field and suction reduce this velocity overshoot.     

Effect of viscous dissipation on the mixed convection heat transfer from an exponentially stretching surface

The mixed convection flow and heat transfer from an exponentially stretching vertical surface in a quiescent fluid is analyzed using similarity solution technique. Wall temperature and stretching velocity are assumed to have specific exponential function forms. The influence of buoyancy along with viscous dissipation on the convective transport in the boundary layer region is analyzed in both aiding and opposing flow situations. The flow is governed by the mixed convection parameter Gr/Re². The velocity and temperature inside the boundary layer are observed to be influenced by the parameters like Prandtl number Pr, Gebhart number Gb. Significant changes are observed in non-dimensional skin friction and heat transfer coefficients due to viscous dissipation in the medium. The flow and temperature distributions inside the boundary layer are analyzed and the results for non-dimensional skin friction and heat transfer coefficients are discussed through computer generated plots.     

Laminar flow through channels with porous walls and with an applied transverse magnetic field

Summary The problem of two-dimensional steady laminar flow of a viscous incompressible and electrically conducting fluid through a channel with two equally porous walls in the presence of a transverse magnetic field has been extended to include all values of Hartmann number and small suction velocity at the walls. Expressions for the velocity components, the pressure and the wall friction in terms of the Hartmann number and the suction Reynolds number are given. It is found that the pressure drop in the major flow direction and the wall friction decrease with the increase in suction and increase with the increase in the strength of the magnetic field.     

Heat and Mass Transfer in MHD Micropolar Flow Over a Vertical Moving Porous Plate in a Porous Medium

An analysis is presented for the problem of free convection with mass transfer flow for a micropolar fluid via a porous medium bounded by a semi-infinite vertical porous plate in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. The plate moves with constant velocity in the longitudinal direction, and the free stream velocity follows an exponentially small perturbation law. A uniform magnetic field acts perpendicularly to the porous surface in which absorbs the micropolar fluid with a suction velocity varying with time. Numerical results of velocity distribution of micropolar fluids are compared with the corresponding flow problems for a Newtonian fluid. Also, the results of the skin-friction coefficient, the couple stress coefficient, the rate of the heat and mass transfers at the wall are prepared with various values of fluid properties and flow conditions.     

A novel analytic solution of MHD flow for two classes of visco-elastic fluid over a sheet stretched with non-linearly (quadratic) velocity

The laminar boundary layer flow induced in a quiescent visco-elastic fluid by a permeable stretched flat surface with non-linearly (quadratic) velocity and appropriate wall transpiration under the influence of a magnetic field is investigated. It is shown that the problem permits a complete analytic exponentially decaying solution for the set of continuity and momentum equations with both magnetic field and visco-elasticity influences for two classes of visco-elastic fluid, namely, the second grade and Walters’ liquid B fluids. The effects on both the skin friction parameter α and velocity profiles of various physical parameters such as visco-elasticity, suction/blowing parameter and magnetic parameter are studied. The results for the velocity field are presented through graphs and discussed in detail.     

Mixed convection boundary layer flow past a wedge with permeable walls

The effects of suction/injection on steady laminar mixed convection boundary layer flow over a permeable horizontal surface of a wedge in a viscous and incompressible fluid is considered in this paper. The similarity solutions of the governing boundary layer equations are obtained for some values of the suction/injection parameter f ₀, the constant exponent m 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 an implicit finite-difference scheme known as the Keller-box method. Numerical results for the reduced skin friction coefficient, the local Nusselt number, and the velocity and temperature profiles are obtained for various values of parameters considered. Dual solutions are found to exist for the case of opposing flow.     

Effect of the Chemical Reaction and Injection on Flow Characteristics in an Unsteady Upward Motion of an Isothermal Plate

The transient incompressible viscous fluid flow regime past a semiinfinite isothermal plate under conditions of natural convection is studied numerically. The solution obtained takes into account the firstorder homogeneous chemical reaction and the mass flux through the plate. The calculated velocity profile is in good agreement with the known exact solution. Velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles are presented. It is shown that the fluid velocity decreases with increasing chemical reaction parameter. The distributions of local and averaged values of skin friction and Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are analyzed.