Journal
COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION
Volume 16, Issue 11, Pages 4318-4334Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2011.03.014
Keywords
Nanofluid; Boundary layer; Vertical plate; Mixed convection; FEM
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- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India
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Steady, mixed convection laminar boundary layer flow of incompressible nanofluid along the vertical plate with temperature dependent heat source/sink has been investigated numerically. The resulting non-linear governing equations (obtained with the Boussinesq approximation) are solved, using a robust, extensively validated, variational finite element method (FEM) for both spherical and cylindrical shaped nanoparticles with volume fraction ranging up to 4%, with associated boundary conditions and the effect of the parameters governing the problem are discussed. Different water-based nanofluids containing Cu, Ag, CuO, Al2O3, and TiO2 are taken into consideration. The results show that the average Nusselt number is found to decrease for Ag, Cu, CuO, Al2O3, and TiO2. The present study is of immediate interest in next-generation solar film collectors, heat exchangers technology, materials processing exploiting vertical surfaces, geothermal energy storage and all those processes which are highly affected with heat enhancement concept. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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