Heat Transfer In An Upper Convected Maxwell Fluid With Fluid Particle Suspension

Keywords

Dusty fluid; Fluid particle interaction; Heat transfer; Hydromagnetic flow; UCM fluid

Abstract

An analysis is carried out to study the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow and heat transfer characteristics of an electrically conducting dusty non-Newtonian fluid, namely, the upper convected Maxwell (UCM) fluid over a stretching sheet. The stretching velocity and the temperature at the surface are assumed to vary linearlywith the distance from the origin. Using a similarity transformation, the governing nonlinear partial differential equations of themodel problemare transformed into coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations and the equations are solved numerically by a second order finite difference implicit method known as the Keller-box method. Comparisons with the available results in the literature are presented as a special case. The effects of the physical parameters on the fluid velocity, the velocity of the dust particle, the density of the dust particle, the fluid temperature, the dust-phase temperature, the skin friction, and the wall-temperature gradient are presented through tables and graphs. It is observed that, Maxwell fluid reduces the wall-shear stress. Also, the fluid particle interaction reduces the fluid temperature in the boundary layer. Furthermore, the results obtained for the flow and heat transfer characteristics reveal many interesting behaviors that warrant further study on the non-Newtonian fluid flow phenomena, especially the dusty UCMfluid flow phenomena.

Publication Date

6-1-2015

Publication Title

Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics

Volume

7

Issue

3

Number of Pages

369-386

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.4208/aamm.2013.m379

Socpus ID

84960885225 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84960885225

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