M. A. Mansour

Radiative and free-convection effects on the oscillatory flow past a vertical plate

The interaction of free convection with thermal radiation of the oscillatory flow past a vertical plate is studied. The Rosseland approximation is used to describe the radiative heat flux in the energy equation.

SIMILARITY SOLUTION FOR UNSTEADY HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FROM A STRETCHING SURFACE EMBEDDED IN A POROUS MEDIUM WITH SUCTION/INJECTION AND CHEMICAL REACTION EFFECTS

An analysis is presented to investigate the effects of chemical reaction on unsteady free convective heat and mass transfer on a stretching surface in a porous medium. The governing partial differential equations have been transformed by a similarity transformation into a system of ordinary differential equations, which are solved numerically using an efficient tri-diagonal implicit finite-difference method. The results obtained show that the flow field is influenced appreciably by the presence of unsteadiness parameter, chemical reaction parameter, permeability parameter, and suction/injection parameter.

Heat and mass transfer in magnetohydrodynamic flow of micropolar fluid on a circular cylinder with uniform heat and mass flux

Abstract Steady laminar boundary layer analysis of heat and mass transfer characteristics in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a micropolar fluid on a circular cylinder maintained at uniform heat and mass flux has been conducted. The solution of the energy equation inside the boundary layer is obtained as a power series of the distance measured along the surface from the front stagnation point of the cylinder. The results of dimensionless temperature, Nusselt number, wall shear stress, wall couple stress and Sherwood number have been presented graphically for various values of the material parameters. The results indicate that the micropolar fluids display a reduction in drag as well as heat transfer rate when compared with Newtonian fluids.

Mixed Convection Effect on Melting from a Vertical Plate in a Porous Medium

In the present work, the effect of mixed convection about vertical surfaces on the phenomenon of melting process in a fluid-saturated porous medium is analyzed on the basis of boundary layer approximations. Similarity solutions are obtained for aiding external flow. The final similarity equations are integrated numerically by use of the fourth-order Runge–Kutta method. Results are reported for the flow and thermal fields in the melt region. The melting phenomenon decreases the local Nusselt number at the solid–liquid interface.

Natural convection inside a C-shaped nanofluid-filled enclosure with localized heat sources

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate natural convection fluid flow and heat transfer inside C-shaped enclosures filled with Cu-Water nanofluid numerically using the finite difference method. Design/methodology/approach – In this investigation, the finite difference method is employed to solve the governing equations with the boundary conditions. Central difference quotients were used to approximate the second derivatives in both the X and Y directions. Then, the obtained discretized equations are solved using a Gauss-Seidel iteration technique. Findings – It was found from the obtained results that the mean Nusselt number increased with increase in Rayleigh number and volume fraction of Cu nanoparticles regardless aspect ratio of the enclosure. Moreover the obtained results showed that the rate of heat transfer increased with decreasing the aspect ratio of the cavity. Also, it was found that the rate of heat transfer increased with increase in nanoparticles volume fraction. Also at low Ra...

Effects of heat sink and source and entropy generation on MHD mixed convection of a Cu-water nanofluid in a lid-driven square porous enclosure with partial slip

In this work, the effects of the presence of a heat sink and a heat source and their lengths and locations and the entropy generation on MHD mixed convection flow and heat transfer in a porous enclosure filled with a Cu-water nanofluid in the presence of partial slip effect are investigated numerically. Both the lid driven vertical walls of the cavity are thermally insulated and are moving with constant and equal speeds in their own plane and the effect of partial slip is imposed on these walls. A segment of the bottom wall is considered as a heat source meanwhile a heat sink is placed on the upper wall of cavity. There are heated and cold parts placed on the bottom and upper walls, respectively, while the remaining parts are thermally insulated. Entropy generation and local heat transfer according to different values of the governing parameters are presented in detail. It is found that the addition of nanoparticles decreases the convective heat transfer inside the porous cavity at all ranges of the heat ...

Radiative Effect on Natural Convection Flows in Porous Media

A regular two-parameter perturbation analysis based upon the boundary layer approximation is presented here to study the radiative effects of both first- and second-order resistances due to a solid matrix on the natural convection flows in porous media. Four different flows have been studied, those adjacent to an isothermal surface, a uniform heat flux surface, a plane plume and the flow generated from a horizontal line energy source on a vertical adiabatic surface. The first-order perturbation quantities are presented for all these flows. Numerical results for the four conditions with various radiation parameters are tabulated.

Unsteady natural convection from a heated vertical plate in micropolar fluid

An analysis is presented for the unsteady natural convection from a heated semi-infinite vertical plate placed in a micropolar fluid in the presence of internal heat generation or absorption. Numerical solutions of the unsteady boundary layer equations have been obtained at any station along the vertical plate using the finite difference method. Details of the velocity and temperature fields are presented for various values of time.

MHD mixed convection of Cu-water nanofluid in a two-sided lid-driven porous cavity with a partial slip

ABSTRACT A numerical simulation of magneto-hydrodynamic mixed convection flow and heat transfer of Cu–water nanofluid in a square cavity filled with a Darcian porous medium with a partial slip is numerically investigated. The left and right walls of the cavity are moving up with a constant speed in vertical direction, and the partial slip effect is considered along these walls. The top and bottom walls of the cavity are assumed to be adiabatic. The right vertical wall of the cavity is assumed to be kept at a lower temperature, while the left vertical wall is kept at a higher temperature. The developed equations of the mathematical model are nondimensionalized and then solved numerically subject to appropriate boundary conditions by the finite-volume method. A parametric study is performed and a set of graphical results is presented and discussed to demonstrate interesting features of the solution.

Radiative effects on magnetohydrodynamic natural convection flows saturated in porous media

Abstract A boundary layer solution is presented to study the effects of joule heating on magnetohydrodynamic natural convection flow. The Rosseland approximation is used to describe the radiative heat flux in the energy equation. Four different cases of flows have been studied namely an isothermal surface, a uniform heat flux surface, a plane plume and flow generated from—a horizontal line energy source a vertical adiabatic surface. Numerical results presented for the perturbation analysis four boundary conditions with various parameters are tabulated.