Evaluation of Nusselt Number for a Flow in a Parallel Plates Using MHD Second Order Slip Model

Abstract

Abstract In this study, two separate boundary condition models, as proposed by Beskok and Karniadakis [1] and Deissler [2], widely preferred for the second order boundary condition, were used. These two proposed boundary condition models were solved in the presence of a magnetic field moving normal to the plate surface in magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) flow between micro-parallel plates with constant wall heat flux. The energy equation for the second-order temperature jump boundary condition, taking into account the momentum and viscous dissipation, as well as the corresponding Nusselt value were solved analytically in slip flow regime.The flow of an incompressible viscous flow between fixed micro-parallel plates with electrical conductivity is assumed to be constant, laminar, hydrodynamically and thermally developed. The closed form solutions for the temperature field and the fully developed Nusselt number are derived as a function of the Magnetic parameter (MHD), Knudsen number and Brinkman number and shown graphically and in a tabular form. The second order boundary condition model proposed by Deissler [2] predicts the Nusselt number to be at lower values when compared to the first order boundary condition model, and the second order boundary condition model proposed by Beskok and Karniadakis [1] predicts the Nusselt number to be at higher values than that of the first order boundary condition model. Moreover, increasing the magnetic field parameter M, led to higher Nusselt values in the slip flow model proposed by both Deissler [2] and Beskok and Karniadakis [1] compared to that when M = 0.