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Numerical Analysis of the Mixed Flow of a Non-Newtonian Fluid over a Stretching Sheet with Thermal Radiation
1 Maritime Department-Marine Engineering, International Maritime College Oman (IMCO), Suhar, 322, Sultanate of Oman
2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, 13518, Egypt
* Corresponding Author: Nourhan I. Ghoneim. Email:
Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing 2023, 19(2), 407-419. https://doi.org/10.32604/fdmp.2022.020508
Received 27 November 2021; Accepted 07 March 2022; Issue published 29 August 2022
Abstract
A mathematical model is elaborated for the laminar flow of an Eyring-Powell fluid over a stretching sheet. The considered non-Newtonian fluid has Prandtl number larger than one. The effects of variable fluid properties and heat generation/absorption are also discussed. The balance equations for fluid flow are reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations through a similarity transformation and solved numerically using a Chebyshev spectral scheme. The effect of various parameters on the rate of heat transfer in the thermal boundary regime is investigated, i.e., thermal conductivity, the heat generation/absorption ratio and the mixed convection parameter. Good agreement appears to exist between theoretical predictions and the existing published results.Keywords
List of symbols
| Component of velocity in the x-direction |
| Component of velocity in the y-direction |
| The reference temperature |
| The temperature in the surroundings |
| The characteristics of Powell-Eyring Model |
| The permeability of the porous medium |
| The gravitational acceleration |
| The ambient fluid density |
| The stream function |
| The fluid temperature |
| The heat sources coefficient |
| The radiative heat flux |
| The specific heat at constant pressure |
| The positive dimensional constants |
| The Stefan-Boltzman constant |
| The absorption coefficient |
| The non-dimensional stream function |
| The similarity variable |
| The dimensionless fluid temperature |
| The dimensionless Powell-Eyring fluid parameters |
| The porous parameter |
| The heat generation (absorption) parameter |
| The thermal stratification parameter |
| The Prandtl number |
| The local skin-friction |
| The local Nusselt number |
| The local Reynolds number |
Many neoteric engineering applications require control of both the cooling mechanism and the high-speed transfer of fluid flow, particularly the flow produced by stretching the sheet. Abundant examples can be cited in chemical engineering and particularly in the manufacturing of plastic and rubber sheets, crystal growing, food processing, solidification of liquid crystals, glass blowing, hot rolling, continuous cooling, fiber spinning, exotic lubricants, and several other areas of technology. Many assumptions regarding the nature of fluid flow over a stretching sheet, along with properly chosen boundary conditions, result in accurate and numerical solutions to the conservation equations that describe flow velocity, heat transfer mechanisms, and mass transfer processes [1–6]. While the prediction of cooling phenomena is extremely useful, certain other information such as suction or injection, thermal radiation and heat flux is also valuable [7–10]. A reasonably straightforward correlation between proper physical circumstances and some physical assumptions, in particular, becomes useful in predicting model performance or setting cooling parameters [11–13]. Because of its biological, geological, and engineering applications in purification processes, liquid film evaporation, filtration processes, petroleum industries, and subsurface water resources, the topic of fluid flow within a porous medium has recently gotten a lot of interest. As shown in the diagram, the porous medium can be classified into two types based on its porosity: porous medium with high porosity and porous medium with low porosity (Fig. 1).
The flow and temperature fields are considered over linear and non-linear stretching sheets in all of the preceding investigations. Theoreticians have been less enthusiastic to study the non-Newtonian Powell-Eyring fluid because they believe that this sort of boundary-layer fluid is unsuitable for industrial use. However, they observed that non-Newtonian fluids caused by stretching sheets provide a significant engineering and technological problem because of their widespread engineering and technological applications in a variety of industrial and engineering processes [14–19]. In references [20–38], you can find some additional interesting contributions on Newtonian and non-Newtonian nanofluid flow and its applications in manufacturing.
The fundamental purpose of this research is to look at the heat transfer properties of an Eyring-Powell fluid flow caused by a stretching sheet immersed in a porous media and influenced by thermal radiation. Our focus here is on two fundamental physical phenomena: mixed convection and thermal stratification, both of which have significant effects on cooling rates. The results of the current analysis were obtained after employing the efficient Chebyshev spectral method.
A layer of finite thickness is constrained on one side by a stretched wall in the physical model. This surface is assumed to has a temperature
In order to be as precise as possible, the number of governing parameters for this physical model is introduced by assuming that there are heat sources with a coefficient
The temperature distribution and energy transfer across the thermal layer can be predicted using the thermal characteristics and boundary conditions. The shear stress relation, which describes the Powell-Eyring model, is [39]:
where
Considering
For the above physical situation, basic equations for mass, momentum and energy after using the appropriate boundary layer approximations are thus:
where
with the band of physical model and application of simplification for
where
in which
For mathematical convenience, viscosity of the fluid
The following rigorous transformation for both the flow and heat transfer fields (3) and (4) could be obtained by using Eqs. (9) and (10) along with the boundary conditions (7) and (8) as follows:
where
Apart from the preceding system that governs our physical problem and allows us to quickly recognize flow features and heat transfer mechanisms, it is very serious to study the following significant physical quantities, the local skin-friction coefficient (
where
To validate the reliability and precision of the numerical process utilized here via the Chebyshev spectral method, calculations for the values of the skin-friction coefficient are done below. The data obtained is compared to Bilal and Ashbar’s previously published findings [43]. From our observations of the tabular data in Table 1, we have found that our results are in good accord.
The preceding considerations and assumptions lead to the current results and discussion section. As a result, while describing the physical problem of hydrodynamics, a system of ordinary differential equations with novel governing parameters emerges, giving us the opportunity to choose which of them is required to develop the suggested model. The Chebyshev spectral approach [44] is appealing because it achieves more precision than other numerical methods for solving the system that regulates our situation. It is also worth noting that all of the results produced utilizing the Chebyshev spectral approach, as well as other associated published results, are mutually supportive. The results of the fully developed velocity and temperature profiles for governing parameter runs in the laminar flow region are plotted in Figs. 3–11. Fig. 3 depicts the numerical result of the present analysis, which offers a close examination of the impact of the porous parameter
Figs. 4a and 4b show how the velocity and temperature fields vary as the
The velocity and temperature profiles in Figs. 5a and 5b indicate the impact of the dimensionless Powell-Eyring parameter
The curves in Figs. 6a and 6b show that for low viscosity parameter
Regarding the mixed convection parameter
Figs. 8a and 8b show the effect of the radiation parameter
Further, a typical steady flow and heat transfer pattern for different values of the thermal conductivity parameter
Figs. 10a and 10b show the variations in velocity
In order to illustrate the effect of the thermal stratification parameter
Now, both the physical quantities
The current investigation’s overall goal is to determine the velocity distribution, temperature distribution, heat transfer rate, and drag properties of Powell-Eyring fluid flow in the boundary layer region. The material presented in this research is limited to the measurement of the flow and heat transfer of the Powell-Eyring fluid with mixed convection and heat generation and the determination of their effect on the cooling mechanism through a porous medium. This data would contribute considerably to the understanding of the mixed-convection heat transfer phenomena. Numerically, a solution to the present physical problem using the Chebyshev spectral method was introduced. The main findings of our study are summarized as follows:
1. It is even possible that with large values of the first Powell-Eyring parameter and smaller values of the porous parameter, the boundary layer thickness will be totally increased.
2. Another interesting situation is that in which both the porous parameter and the thermal conductivity parameter increase significantly, the temperature distribution may be regarded as being enhanced uniformly.
3. Thermal radiation and heat generation have another important effect insofar as they can establish a thicker thermal layer with the thermal stratification phenomenon.
4. It is interesting to note that the thickness of the fluid layer depends very little on the second Powell-Eyring parameter, the thermal conductivity parameter, and the thermal stratification parameter.
5. A strong relationship between the cooling mechanism and both of the thermal stratification parameters and the radiation parameter is found.
Acknowledgement: The authors wish to express their sincere thanks to the editor and referees for their valuable time spent reading this paper and for their valuable comments and suggestions, which improved the quality of this paper.
Funding Statement: The authors received no specific funding for this study.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to report regarding the present study.
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