The influence of heat and mass transfer on MHD peristaltic flow through a porous space with compliant walls

The present study investigates the effects of heat and mass transfer on peristaltic transport in a porous space with compliant walls. The fluid is electrically conducting in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. Analytic solution is carried out under long-wavelength and low-Reynolds number approximations. The expressions for stream function, temperature, concentration and heat transfer coefficient are obtained. Numerical results are graphically discussed for various values of physical parameters of interest.     

Peristatcally induced MHD slip flow in a porous medium due to a surface acoustic wavy wall

The influences of Hall current and slip condition on the MHD flow induced by sinusoidal peristaltic wavy wall in two dimensional viscous fluid through a porous medium for moderately large Reynolds number is considered on the basis of boundary layer theory in the case where the thickness of the boundary layer is larger than the amplitude of the wavy wall. Solutions are obtained in terms of a series expansion with respect to small amplitude by a regular perturbation method. Graphs of velocity components, both for the outer and inner flows for various values of the Reynolds number, slip parameter, Hall and magnetic parameters are drawn. The inner and outer solutions are matched by the matching process. An interesting application of the present results to mechanical engineering may be the possibility of the fluid transportation without an external pressure.     

Group method analysis of combined heat and mass transfer by MHD non-Darcy non-Newtonian natural convection adjacent to horizontal cylinder in a saturated porous medium

The group theoretic method is applied for solving problem of combined magneto-hydrodynamic heat and mass transfer of non-Darcy natural convection about an impermeable horizontal cylinder in a non-Newtonian power law fluid embedded in porous medium under coupled thermal and mass diffusion, inertia resistance, magnetic field, thermal radiation effects. The application of one-parameter groups reduces the number of independent variables by one and consequently, the system of governing partial differential equations with the boundary conditions reduces to a system of ordinary differential equations with appropriate boundary conditions. The ordinary differential equations are solved numerically for the velocity using shooting method. The effects of magnetic parameter M, Ergun number Er, power law (viscosity) index n, buoyancy ratio N, radiation parameter R_d, Prandtl number Pr and Lewis number Le on the velocity, temperature fields within the boundary layer, heat and mass transfer are presented graphically and discussed.     

Effects of radiation and variable viscosity on unsteady MHD flow of a rotating fluid from stretching surface in porous medium

This work is focused on the study of unsteady magnetohydrodynamics boundary-layer flow and heat transfer for a viscous laminar incompressible electrically conducting and rotating fluid due to a stretching surface embedded in a saturated porous medium with a temperature-dependent viscosity in the presence of a magnetic field and thermal radiation effects. The fluid viscosity is assumed to vary as an inverse linear function of temperature. The Rosseland diffusion approximation is used to describe the radiative heat flux in the energy equation. With appropriate transformations, the unsteady MHD boundary layer equations are reduced to local nonsimilarity equations. Numerical solutions of these equations are obtained by using the Runge–Kutta integration scheme as well as the local nonsimilarity method with second order truncation. Comparisons with previously published work have been conducted and the results are found to be in excellent agreement. A parametric study of the physical parameters is conducted and a representative set of numerical results for the velocity in primary and secondary flows as well as the local skin-friction coefficients and the local Nusselt number are illustrated graphically to show interesting features of Darcy number, viscosity-variation, magnetic field, rotation of the fluid, and conduction radiation parameters.     

Higher order commutator estimates and local existence for the non-resistive MHD equations and related models

This paper establishes the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of strong solutions in H^s$H^s$ for s>n/2$s>n/2$ to the viscous, non-resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in Rⁿ${\mathbb{R}}^n$, n=2,3$n=2,3$, as well as for a related model where the advection terms are removed from the velocity equation. The uniform bounds required for proving existence are established by means of a new estimate, which is a partial generalisation of the commutator estimate of Kato and Ponce (1988) [13].     

Bounds and New Approaches for the 3D MHD Equations

Summary. {In this paper we establish several properties concerning solutions of the 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations including global regularity conditions, a priori bounds, and real analyticity. We also explore two new approaches to the viscous and resistive MHD equations.}     

Stability problem for the composite type functional equations

Composite type functional equations in several variables play a significant role in various branches of mathematics and they have several interesting applications. Therefore their stability properties are of interest. The aim of this paper is to present a survey of some results and methods concerning stability of several of such equations; especially those somehow connected to the well known Go??b–Schinzel equation.     

Stability of steady rotations in the nonholonomic Routh problem

We have discovered a new first integral in the problem of motion of a dynamically symmetric ball, subject to gravity, on the surface of a paraboloid. Using this integral, we have obtained conditions for stability (in the Lyapunov sense) of steady rotations of the ball at the upmost, downmost and saddle point.      

Existence of solutions for the MHD-Leray-alpha equations and their relations to the MHD equations

In this paper we derive some new equations and we call them MHD-Leray-alpha equations which are similar to the MHD equations. We put forward the concept of weak and strong solutions for the new equations. Whether the 3-dimensional MHD equations have a unique weak solution is unknown, however, there is a unique weak solution for the 3-dimensional MHD-Leray-alpha equations. The global existence of strong solution and the Gevrey class regularity for the new equations are also obtained. Furthermore, we prove that the solutions of the MHD-Leray-alpha equations converge to the solution of the MHD equations in the weak sense as the parameter ε in the new equations converges to zero.     

A new scaling invariant regularity criterion for the 3D MHD equations in terms of horizontal gradient of horizontal components

We prove a new scaling invariant regularity criterion for the 3D MHD equations via horizontal gradient of horizontal components of weak solutions. This result improves a recent work by Ni et al. (2012), in the sense that the assumption on the horizontal gradient of the vertical components is removed. As a byproduct, a scaling invariant regularity criterion involving vertical components of vorticity and current density is also obtained.     

Global existence and decay of smooth solution for the 2-D MHD equations without magnetic diffusion

We prove the global existence and the decay estimates of small smooth solution for the 2-D MHD equations without magnetic diffusion. This confirms the numerical observation that the energy of the MHD equations is dissipated at a rate independent of the ohmic resistivity.     

Stability estimate for the hyperbolic inverse boundary value problem by local Dirichlet-to-Neumann map

In this paper we consider the stability of the inverse problem of determining a function q(x) in a wave equation in a bounded smooth domain in Rn from boundary observations. This information is enclosed in the hyperbolic (dynamic) Dirichlet-to-Neumann map associated to the solutions to the wave equation. We prove in the case of n?2 that q(x) is uniquely determined by the range restricted to a subboundary of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map whose stability is a type of double logarithm.     

Stability estimate for an inverse boundary coefficient problem in thermal imaging

We establish a stability estimate for an inverse boundary coefficient problem in thermal imaging. The inverse problem under consideration consists in the determination of a boundary coefficient appearing in a boundary value problem for the heat equation with Robin boundary condition (we note here that the initial condition is assumed to be a priori unknown). Our stability estimate is of logarithmic type and it is essentially based on a logarithmic estimate for a Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation.     

Stability of a matrix finite-difference scheme for solving the problem of elastic vibrations

The stability of a matrix finite-difference scheme is analyzed. The scheme is based on central differences and is designed for the differential equation governing the vibrations of an elastic system.     

Stability on the one-dimensional inverse source scattering problem in a two-layered medium

This paper concerns the stability on the inverse source scattering problem for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in a two-layered medium. We show that the increasing stability can be achieved using multi-frequency wave field at the two end points of the interval which contains the compact support of the source function.     

Local and parallel finite element algorithms for the stokes problem

Based on two-grid discretizations, some local and parallel finite element algorithms for the Stokes problem are proposed and analyzed in this paper. These algorithms are motivated by the observation that for a solution to the Stokes problem, low frequency components can be approximated well by a relatively coarse grid and high frequency components can be computed on a fine grid by some local and parallel procedure. One technical tool for the analysis is some local a priori estimates that are also obtained in this paper for the finite element solutions on general shape-regular grids. Y. He was partially subsidized by the NSF of China 10671154 and the National Basic Research Program under the grant 2005CB321703; A. Zhou was partially supported by the National Science Foundation of China under the grant 10425105 and the National Basic Research Program under the grant 2005CB321704; J. Li was partially supported by the NSF of China under the grant 10701001. J. Xu was partially supported by Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientists, NSF DMS-0609727 and NSFC-10528102.     

The effects of MHD and temperature dependent viscosity on the flow of non-Newtonian nanofluid in a pipe: Analytical solutions

This article examines the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of non-Newtonian nanofluid in a pipe. The temperature of the pipe is assumed to be higher than the temperature of the fluid. In particular two temperature dependent viscosity models, have been considered. The nonlinear partial differential equations along with the boundary conditions are first cast into a dimensionless form and then the equations are solved by homotopy analysis method (HAM). Explicit analytical expressions for the velocity field, the temperature distribution and nano concentration have been derived analytically. The effects of various physical parameters on velocity, temperature and nano concentration are discussed by using graphical approach.     

Solutions for the problem of boundary layer formation in a pseudo-plastic fluid: The case of gradual acceleration

We consider the development of the nonstationary boundary layer about a body that gradually starts to move in a resting fluid. Under certain conditions, we construct the solutions for the problem of formation of boundary layer in a pseudo-plastic fluid. The method used here is mainly based on a transformation which reduces the boundary layer system to a boundary value problem for a single quasilinear parabolic equation.