MAGNETIC EFFECTS OF FERROFLUID FLOW IN A HEATED MICROCHANNEL WITH PERMEABLE WALLS
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Published:2022-06-21
Issue:3
Volume:52
Page:247-257
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ISSN:1851-8796
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Container-title:Latin American Applied Research - An international journal
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language:
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Short-container-title:LAAR
Author:
Kefene Mesfin,Makinde Daniel,Enyadene Lemi
Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the combined effects of magnetic field, nanoparticles volume fractions, variable viscosity of unsteady ferrofluid flow in a microchannel with parallel permeable walls oriented horizontally whose temperatures are held asymmetrically. Using similarity transformation process, the governing Navier-Stoke’s, energy equations and the associated initial boundary conditions (IBCs) are reduced to a set of dimensionless nonlinear partial differential equations with IBCs. The numerical method used for solving these equations is semi-discretization via centered finite difference with Runge-Kutta Fehlberg integration techniques. The effects of pertinent parameters on dimensionless fluid velocity, temperature, skin friction, Nusselt number are analyzed through graphical depiction using MAPLE software.
Publisher
EdiUNS - Editorial de la Universidad Nacional del Sur
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry