Peristaltic Flow And Heat Transfer Of A Conducting Phan-Thien-Tanner Fluid In An Asymmetric Channel - Application To Chyme Movement In Small Intestine

Keywords

Asymmetric channel; Peristaltic flow; Phan-Thien-Tanner fluid; Porous medium; Trapping phenomena

Abstract

In this paper, the influence of heat transfer on the peristaltic flow of a conducting Phan-Thien-Tanner fluid in an asymmetric channel with porous medium is studied. The coupled nonlinear governing differential equations are solved by a perturbation technique. The expressions for the temperature field, the stream function, the axial velocity, and the pressure gradient are obtained. The effects of the various physical parameters such as the magnetic parameter M, the permeability parameter σ, the Brinkman number Br and the Weissenberg number We on the pumping phenomenon are analyzed through graphs and the results are discussed in detail. It is observed that the velocity and the pressure are decreased with increasing the magnetic parameter M whereas the effect of the parameter M on the temperature field is quite the opposite.

Publication Date

8-1-2016

Publication Title

International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volume

21

Issue

3

Number of Pages

713-736

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1515/ijame-2016-0042

Socpus ID

84988643497 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84988643497

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