Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NUMERICAL METHODS FOR HEAT & FLUID FLOW
Volume 27, Issue 10, Pages 2259-2267Publisher
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/HFF-09-2016-0358
Keywords
Nanofluid; Nusselt number; Volume fraction; Stretching/shrinking surface; Slip; Porous; Skin friction
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Purpose - This paper aims to working out exact solutions for the boundary layer flow of some nanofluids over porous stretching/shrinking surfaces with different configurations. To serve to this aim, five types of nanoparticles together with the water as base fluid are under consideration, namely, Ag, Cu, CuO, Al2O3 and TiO2. Design/methodology/approach - The physical flow is affected by the presence of velocity slip as well as temperature jump conditions. Findings - The knowledge on the influences of nanoparticle volume fraction on the practically significant parameters, such as the skin friction and the rate of heat transfer, for the above considered nanofluids, is easy to gain from the extracted explicit formulas. Originality/value - Particularly, formulas clearly point that the heat transfer rate is not only dependent on the thermal conductivity of the material but it also highly relies on the heat capacitance as well as the density of the nanofluid under consideration.
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