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Investigation of Squeezing Unsteady Nanofluid Flow Using the Modified Decomposition Method

Lei Lu^1,2, Li-Hua Liu^3,4, Xiao-Xiao Li¹

1 School of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, P.R. China.
2 School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China.
3 College of Sciences of Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot, 010051, China.
4 Corresponding author. E-mail: zylihualiu@imut.edu.cn.

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2014, 101(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3970/cmes.2014.101.001

Abstract

In this paper, we use the modified decomposition method (MDM) to solve the unsteady flow of a nanofluid squeezing between two parallel equations. Copper as nanoparticle with water as its base fluid has considered. The effective thermal conductivity and viscosity of nanofluid are calculated by the Maxwell- Garnetts (MG) and Brinkman models, respectively. The effects of the squeeze number, the nanofluid volume fraction, Eckert number, δ on Nusselt number and the Prandtl number are investigated. The figures and tables clearly show high accuracy of the method to solve the unsteady flow.

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