Effect of thermal conductivity on heat transfer for a power-law non-Newtonian fluid over a continuous stretched surface with various injection parameters

The two-dimensional non-Newtonian steady flow on a power-law stretched surface with suction or injection is studied. Thermal conductivity is assumed to vary as a linear function of temperature. The transformed governing equations in the present study are solved numerically using the Runge-Kutta method. Through a comparison, results for a special case of the problem show excellent agreement with those in a previous work. Two cases are considered, one corresponding to a cooled surface temperature and the other to a uniform surface temperature. Numerical results show that the thermal conductivity variation parameter, the injection parameter, and the power-law index have significant influences on the temperature profiles and the Nusselt number.     

Forced Convection Heat Transfer on a Flat Plate Embedded in Porous Media for Power-Law Fluids

The effect of the presence of an isotropic solid matrix on the forced convection heat transfer rate from a flat plate to power-law non- Newtonian fluid-saturated porous medium, has been investigated. Numerical results are presented for the distribution of velocity and temperature profiles within the boundary layer. The effects of the flow index, first-order and second-order resistance on the velocity, and temperature profiles are discussed. The missing wall values of the velocity and thermal functions are tabulated.     

Heat transfer characteristics of thin power-law liquid films over horizontal stretching sheet with internal heating and variable thermal coefficient

The effect of internal heating source on the film momentum and thermal transport characteristic of thin finite power-law liquids over an accelerating unsteady horizontal stretched interface is studied. Unlike most classical works in this field, a general surface temperature distribution of the liquid film and the generalized Fourier’s law for varying thermal conductivity are taken into consideration. Appropriate similarity transformations are used to convert the strongly nonlinear governing partial differential equations (PDEs) into a boundary value problem with a group of two-point ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The correspondence between the liquid film thickness and the unsteadiness parameter is derived with the BVP4C program in MATLAB. Numerical solutions to the self-similarity ODEs are obtained using the shooting technique combined with a Runge-Kutta iteration program and Newton’s scheme. The effects of the involved physical parameters on the fluid’s horizontal velocity and temperature distribution are presented and discussed.     

Experimental and Numerical Modeling of the Thermal Conductivity of High-Viscosity Hydrocarbon Systems

A mathematical model is developed to numerically predict the heating of heavy hydrocarbon systems. A comparative analysis of numerical and experimental data is performed. It is found that the thermal conductivity of a hydrocarbon system under study heated from an initial temperature of 24°C to 100°C increases by a factor of 40 and, with allowance for free convection, an additional substantial (up to 16 times) increase in heat transfer due to enhanced effective thermal conductivity is observed. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 96–102, November–December, 2005.     

The effect of the vasomotion on the mass transfer in microcirculation

Detailed structure of the attracting set of the piecewise linear Henon mapping(x, y)→(1- a|x|+by,x)with a=8/5 and b=9/25 is described in this paper using the method of dual line mapping. Let A and B denote the fixed saddles in the first quadrant, and in the third quadrant, respectively. It is claimed that(1)the attracting set is the closure of the unstable manifold of saddle B, which includes the unstable manifold of A as its subset, and(2)the basin of attraction is the closure of the stable manifold of A, bounded by the stable manifold of B, which is in the limiting set of the stable manifold of A.Relations of the manifolds of the periodic saddles with the manifolds of the fixed point are given. Symbolic dynamics notations are adopted which renders possible the study of the dynamical behavior of every piece of the manifolds and of every homoclinic or heteroclinic point.     

Simplified lattice Boltzmann method for non-Newtonian power-law fluid flows

In this paper, we present a simplified lattice Boltzmann method for non-Newtonian power-law fluid flows. The new method adopts the predictor-corrector scheme and reconstructs solutions to the macroscopic equations recovered from the lattice Boltzmann equation through Chapman-Enskog expansion analysis. The truncated power-law model is incorporated into this method to locally adjust the physical viscosity and the associated relaxation parameter, which recovers the non-Newtonian behaviors. Compared with existing non-Newtonian lattice Boltzmann models, the proposed method directly evolves the macroscopic variables instead of the distribution functions, which eliminates the intrinsic drawbacks like high cost in virtual memory and inconvenient implementation of physical boundary conditions. The validity of the method is demonstrated by benchmark tests and comparisons with analytical solution or numerical results in the literature. Benchmark solutions to the three-dimensional lid-driven cavity flow of non-Newtonian power-law fluid are also provided for future reference.     

Turbulent free convection heat transfer to power-law fluids from arbitrary geometric configurations

The problem of turbulent free convection heat transfer from curved surfaces to non-Newtonian power-law fluids has been investigated using the Nakayama-Koyama solution methodology. The scheme is designed to deal with bodies of arbitrary geometric configurations and hence can be viewed as a generalized version of the Shenoy-Mashelkar approach for turbulent free convection heat transfer from a flat vertical plate to a power-law fluid. The surface wall temperature is allowed to vary in the streamwise direction in an arbitrary fashion, and calculations are carried out for the turbulent free convection about the horizontal circular cylinder and sphere for illustrative purposes. Available theoretical and experimental data have been compared with the predictions of the present analysis and the comparison of results has been found to be reasonably good.     

非牛顿流体传递过程研究进展及应用

本文简述了非牛顿流体的传递过程的学科发展史.本学科从50年代开始,到80年代形成完整的体系.并综述了非牛顿流体的动量、热量和质量传递的最新研究成果及动向.     

Combined convection in power-law fluids along a nonisothermal vertical plate in a porous medium

The problem of combined convection from vertical surfaces in a porous medium saturated with a power-law type non-Newtonian fluid is investigated. The transformed conservation laws are solved numerically for the case of variable surface heat flux conditions. Results for the details of the velocity and temperature fields as well as the Nusselt number have been presented. The viscosity index ranged from 0.5 to 2.0.     

Analysis of the temperature regime of operation of a filtering unit

The temperature regime of a filtering unit being cooled after an accident at a nuclear power plant is considered. A mathematical model is developed; the model is based on three-dimensional equations of thermohydrodynamics and takes into account heat-transfer mechanisms (convection, heat conduction, and radiation). For the unit variants considered, the maximum value of temperature in the sorbing module is less than 300°C, and the temperature reserve is 20–50°C. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 92–102, November–December, 2007.     

周期性载荷对非牛顿热弹性流体动力润滑的影响

本文应用数值方法分析了周期性动载荷对线接触热弹性流体动力润滑的影响,使用Ree-Eyring流变模型来描绘润滑剂的非牛顿性质。结果显示,周期性动载可以阻滞油膜的变化并在一定程度上增加膜厚。频率很高的动载可以显著改变压力和温度的分布规律,但润滑剂的非牛顿性质在中轻载条件下并不重要。     

Thermal Dispersion Effects on Combined Convection in Non-Newtonian Fluids Along a Nonisothermal Vertical Plate in a Porous Medium

The method of non-similarity solution is used to study the influence of thermal dispersion on combined convection from vertical surfaces in a porous medium saturated with a power-law type non-Newtonian fluid. The coefficient of thermal diffusivity has been assumed to be the sum of molecular diffusivity and the dispersion thermal diffusivity due to mechanical dispersion. The transformed conservation laws are solved numerically for the case of variable surface heat flux conditions. Results for the details of the velocity and temperature fields as well as the Nusselt number have been presented.     

Non-Newtonian Flow in a Variable Aperture Fracture

The transmissivity of a variable aperture fracture for flow of a non-Newtonian, purely viscous power-law fluid with behavior index n is studied. The natural logarithm of the fracture aperture is considered to be a two-dimensional, spatially homogeneous and correlated Gaussian random field. We derive an equivalent fracture aperture for three flow geometries: (1) flow perpendicular to aperture variation; (2) flow parallel to aperture variation; (3) flow in an isotropic aperture field. Under ergodicity, results are obtained for cases 1 and 2 by discretizing the fracture into elements of equal aperture and assuming that the resistances due to each aperture element are, respectively, in parallel and in series; for case 3, the equivalent aperture is derived as the geometric mean of cases 1 and 2. When n=1 all our expressions for the equivalent aperture reduce to those derived in the past for Newtonian flow and lognormal aperture distribution. As log-aperture variance increases, the equivalent aperture is found to increase for case 1, to decrease for case 2, and to be a function of flow behavior index n for case 3.     

A Two-Equation Model for Heat Conduction in Porous Media (II: Application)

The formulism of a two-equation model for heat conduction in porous media, developed in a previous paper, is applied to the case of steady state one-dimensional heat transfer in a porous medium that is made up of geometrically similar units of similar size and of ordered spatial distribution. For this case study, the model-predicted locally volume-averaged temperature distributions for the solid and the fluid phase are compared to a numerical solution at a microscopic level, showing excellent agreement.     

A Two-Equation Model for Heat Conduction in Porous Media (I: Theory)

A two-equation model is presented which describes the conservation of heat in each phase of a porous medium in which diffusion is the predominant means of heat transfer, and of which the phases are not in thermal equilibrium with each other. The model is derived using the method of local volume averaging. This formulation, together with the introduction of characteristic temperature distributions, yields the definition of an effective and a coupled thermal conductivity tensor.     

Thermo-diffusion impact on immiscible flow characteristics of convectively heated vertical two-layered Baffle saturated porous channels in a suspension of nanoparticles: an analytical study

The heat and mass transfer of two immiscible fluids in an inclined channel with thermal diffusion, vicious, and Darcy dissipation is studied. The first region consists of a clear fluid, and the second one is filled with a nanofluid saturated with a porous medium. The behaviors of Cu-H₂O, In-H₂O, and Au-H₂O nanofluids are analyzed. The transport properties are assumed to be constant. The coupled non-linear equations of the flow model are transformed into the dimensionless form, and the solutions for the velocity, temperature, and concentration are obtained by the regular perturbation technique. Investigations are carried out on the flow characteristics for various values of the material parameters. The results show that the velocity and temperature of the fluids enhance with the thermal Grashof number, solutal Grashof number, and Brinkman number while decrease with the porosity parameter and solid volume fraction.     

The correlation of engineering data reconsidered

Rowe¹ highlights some of the pitfalls resulting from correlating engineering data by the use of dimensionless groups. He illustrates his points elegantly by ‘correlating’ sets of data taken from random number tables. Although Rowe's paper is over 20 years old, errors of the type he reveals are still made, resulting in his paper being cited regularly. Yet, contrary to his advice, dimensionless groups and log—log plots are universally used. This may be attributable to custom, convenience or ignorance of a feeling or conviction that Rowe's views are untenable. It is appropriate, therefore, to re-examine the pitfalls Rowe revealed and to study his suggestions for avoiding them. A number of errors and misconceptions have been identified and an alternative approach is recommended. Use of dimensionless groups in the presentation of heat transfer and fluid flow data can lead to the development of spurious correlations, unless great care is exercised. This paper considers the pitfalls and discusses techniques for their avoidance.     

Modeling of heat and mass transfer in a hydrocarbon fluid under inductive heating

Results of numerical simulations of the thermal action on a high-viscosity hydrocarbon fluid with temperature-dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity are presented. A system of equations of thermal convection in the Boussinesq approximation is used as the constitutive equations to describe the convection of the hydrocarbon fluid. The dynamics of the temperature field and convective structures in the fluid is studied. The spatial motion of the fluid is found to be locally nonuniform; the motion is accompanied by vortex flows; as a result, two regions with significantly different temperatures are formed in the medium. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 95–100, January–February, 2009.     

Simultaneous effects of induced magnetic field and heat and mass transfer on the peristaltic motion of second‐order fluid in a channel

In this article, we investigate the influence of heat and mass transfer on the peristaltic flow of magnetohydrodynamic second‐order fluid in a channel when the induced magnetic field effects are present. Problem formulation in a wave frame of reference is presented. The governing nonlinear analysis is carried out under the assumption of small wave number. Explicit expressions of the pressure gradient, the stream function, the magnetic force function, the axial induced magnetic field, the current density distribution, the temperature, and the concentration distribution are derived. The effects of embedded parameters are also examined. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.