The main goal of this paper is to investigate natural convective heat transfer and flow characteristics of non-Newtonian nanofluid streaming between two infinite vertical flat plates in the presence of magnetic field ...The main goal of this paper is to investigate natural convective heat transfer and flow characteristics of non-Newtonian nanofluid streaming between two infinite vertical flat plates in the presence of magnetic field and thermal radiation.Initially,a similarity transformation is used to convert momentum and energy conservation equations in partial differential forms into non-linear ordinary differential equations (ODE) applying meaningful boundary conditions.In order to obtain the non-linear ODEs analytically,Galerkin method (GM) is employed.Subsequently,the ODEs are also solved by a reliable numerical solution.In order to test the accuracy,precision and reliability of the analytical method,results of the analytical analysis are compared with the numerical results.With respect to the comparisons,fairly good compatibilities with insignificant errors are observed.Eventually,the impacts of effective parameters including magnetic and radiation parameters and nanofluid volume fraction on the velocity,skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number distributions are comprehensively described.Based on the results,it is revealed that with increasing the role of magnetic force,velocity profile,skin friction coefficient and thermal performance descend.Radiation parameter has insignificant influence on velocity profile while it obviously has augmentative and decreasing effects on skin friction and Nusselt number,respectively.展开更多
文摘The main goal of this paper is to investigate natural convective heat transfer and flow characteristics of non-Newtonian nanofluid streaming between two infinite vertical flat plates in the presence of magnetic field and thermal radiation.Initially,a similarity transformation is used to convert momentum and energy conservation equations in partial differential forms into non-linear ordinary differential equations (ODE) applying meaningful boundary conditions.In order to obtain the non-linear ODEs analytically,Galerkin method (GM) is employed.Subsequently,the ODEs are also solved by a reliable numerical solution.In order to test the accuracy,precision and reliability of the analytical method,results of the analytical analysis are compared with the numerical results.With respect to the comparisons,fairly good compatibilities with insignificant errors are observed.Eventually,the impacts of effective parameters including magnetic and radiation parameters and nanofluid volume fraction on the velocity,skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number distributions are comprehensively described.Based on the results,it is revealed that with increasing the role of magnetic force,velocity profile,skin friction coefficient and thermal performance descend.Radiation parameter has insignificant influence on velocity profile while it obviously has augmentative and decreasing effects on skin friction and Nusselt number,respectively.
