MHD VISCOUS NANOFLUID FLOW WITH BASE FLUIDS’ WATER AND KEROSENE IN THE PRESENCE OF A TEMPERATURE GRADIENT DEPENDENT HEAT SINK WITH PRESCRIBED HEAT FLUX

Authors

  • K. SARITHA
  • S. PALANIAMMAL

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52292/j.laar.2018.272

Keywords:

Porous surface, Nanofluid, Viscous dissipation, Thermal radiation, Heat flux

Abstract

MHD viscous nanofluid flow with viscous dissipation and thermal radiation in the presence of a temperature gradient dependent heat sink is analyzed. Hence, this work mainly deals nano fluids with nanoparticles Cu, Ag, Al, Al2O3 and TiO2 and with base fluids’ water and kerosene. Prescribed heat flux boundary condition is employed on the porous surface. Suitable similarity transformations are introduced for converting nonlinear partial differential equations into the nonlinear ordinary differential equations and then solved by analytically. The influence of various physical parameters over the velocity and temperature of nanofluids Cu-water and Cu-kerosene are examined by using graphs. Skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number of various nanofluids tabulated and analyzed. It is found that skin friction coefficient and heat transfer rate of kerosene based nanofluid is higher than the water based nanofluid in the presence of considered physical effects.

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Published

2018-03-30

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Heat and Mass Transfer