Open AccessMHD VISCOUS NANOFLUID FLOW WITH BASE FLUIDS’ WATER AND KEROSENE IN THE PRESENCE OF A TEMPERATURE GRADIENT DEPENDENT HEAT SINK WITH PRESCRIBED HEAT FLUX
Author(s) -
K. Saritha,
S. Palaniammal
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
latin american applied research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1851-8796
pISSN - 0327-0793
DOI - 10.52292/j.laar.2018.272
Subject(s) - nanofluid , nusselt number , materials science , heat flux , thermodynamics , kerosene , mechanics , heat transfer , physics , reynolds number , turbulence
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.