Fábio A. Caldas^a,*, Paulo M. Coelho^b,†

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-8, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.32

Abstract In this paper, Nusselt numbers for a power-law fluid in a fully developed laminar flow between parallel plates with constant, and different, wall heat fluxes in the presence of dissipation effects are presented. The Nusselt numbers values were obtained following two different approaches. One is the “classical” approach, based on a single bulk temperature, and this approach is used in this work to obtain for the first time generic analytical expressions for Nusselt numbers. In the new approach, different bulk temperatures are used for each Nu′ determination, one bulk temperature for each side of the More >

M.S. Abdelmeguid^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-8, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.28

Abstract In this paper, the effects of suction/blowing and thermal radiation on a hydromagnetic viscous fluid over a non-linear stretching and shrinking sheet are investigated. A similarity transformation is used to reduce the governing equations to a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The system of equations is solved analytically employing homotopy analysis method (HAM). Convergence of the HAM solution is checked. The resulting similarity equations are solved numerically using Matlab bvp4c numerical routine. It is found that dual solutions exist for this particular problem. The comparison of analytical solution and numerical solution for the velocity More >

R. Srinivasa Raju^a,*, G. Jithender Reddy^b , G. Anitha^a

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-12, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.27

Abstract In the present study, consider an influence of chemical reaction on an unsteady MHD free convective, viscous dissipative Casson fluid flow over a vertically inclined plate in presence of magnetic field, heat and mass transfer. The modeling equations are converted to dimensionless equations, then solved through finite element technique. Computations were performed to analyze the behavior of fluid velocity, temperature, concentration and induced magnetic field on the inclined vertical plate with the variation of emerging physical parameters. Compared the present results with earlier reported studies for correctness and applicability of finite element technique. This model More >

O. K. Koriko, I. L. Animasaun^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-13, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.26

Abstract The motion of air (i.e fluid) in which tiny particle rotates past a pointed surface of a rocket (as in space science), over a bonnet of a car and past a pointed surface of an aircraft is of important to experts in all these fields. Geometrically, all the domains of fluid flow in all these cases can be referred to as the upper horizontal surface of a paraboloid of revolution (uhspr). Meanwhile, the solution of the corresponding partial differential equation is an open question due to unavailability of suitable similarity variable to non-dimensionalize the angular momentum… More >

Z. Iqbal, Ehtsham Azhar^* , E. N. Maraj, Bilal Ahmad

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-7, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.25

Abstract Present investigation represent the study of Cattaneo-Christov heat flux model on boundary layer flow of hyperbolic tangent fluid which is generalized non-Newtonian fluid model over a continuously moving porous surface with a parallel free stream velocity. Mathematical formulation is completed in the presence of Magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD). Suitable relations transform the partial differential equations into the ordinary differential equations. Nonlinear flow analysis is computed and velocity and temperature profiles are obtained by shooting algorithm. Graphs are plotted to analyze the behavior of various involved physical parameters. Furthermore both type of flows Sakaidis ( λ = 1) and More >

P. Bala Anki Reddy^a,*, S. Suneetha^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-11, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.24

Abstract We report on a mathematical model for analyzing the effects of homogeneous-heterogeneous chemical reaction and slip velocity on the MHD stagnation point flow of electrically conducting micropolar fluid over a stretching/shrinking surface embedded in a porous medium. The governing boundary layer coupled partial differential equations are transformed into a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations, which are solved numerically using the MATLAB bvp4c solver. The effects of physical and fluid parameters such as the stretching parameter, micropolar parameter, permeability parameter, strength of homogeneous and heterogeneous reaction parameter on the velocity and concentration are analyzed, and More >

M. Arun, J. Akhil, K. Noufal, Robin Baby, Darshitha Babu, M. Jose Prakash^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-9, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.23

Abstract The supercritical turbulent flow of cryogenic methane flowing in a rocket engine cooing channel is numerically analysed by imposing constant heat flux at the bottom surface of the channel. The calculation scheme is validated by comparing the results obtained with experimental results reported in literature. The heat transfer coefficient is influenced by the strong variation in thermophysical properties of methane at super critical pressure. An increasing trend in the average value of Nusselt number is observed with aspect ratio. The efficacy of both Modified Jackson and Hall and Bishop empirical correlations in predicting Nusselt number More >

B. Ahmad^*, Z. Iqbal

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-6, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.22

Abstract We examine the behavior of Cattaneo-Christov heat flux model for two-dimensional incompressible flow of Eyring Powell fluid passed over an exponentially stretching sheet. Mathematical formulation is performed by assuming boundary layer approximation. Cattaneo Christov heat flux model is applied to analyze the heat transport phenomenon. Thermal relaxation time is envisaged on the layer induced due to boundary. The governing Partial Differential equations are converted into Ordinary differential equations by the appropriate use of similarity transformation. Shooting approach is used to tackle the obtained boundary layer equations. The effects of obtained similarity parameters are plotted and More >

Machireddy Gnaneswara Reddy^a,*, Gorla Rama Subba Reddy^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-9, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.20

Abstract The objective of the present communication is to study the problem of micropolar fluid flow with temperature dependent thermal conductivity over a nonlinear stretching convective vertical surface in the presence of Lorentz force and viscous dissipation. Due to the nature of heat transfer in the flow past vertical surface, Cattaneo-Christov heat flux model and Joule heating effects are properly accommodated in the energy equation. The governing partial differential equations for the flow and heat transfer are converted into a set of ordinary differential equations by employing the acceptable similarity transformations. Runge-Kutta and Newton’s methods are More >

Yongbin Zhang^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-7, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.19

Abstract This paper reviews the models for the fluid flow in micro/nano channels developed previously. These models include the full MDS (molecular dynamics simulation) model, the quasi-continuum model, the modified Navier-Stokes equation model, the dissipative particle dynamics method, the lattice Boltzman method, the multiscale hybrid model and the flow factor approach model. It was pointed out that most of the models have their own imperfections like huge time and computer storage consumption for simulating a system of realistic size or inaccuracy because of the model limitation. It was also mentioned that the most challenging is to More >