The purpose of this paper is to study the characteristics of the combined convection heat transfer and a micropolar nanofluid flow passing through an impermeable stretching sheet in a porous medium.The nanofluid flow ...The purpose of this paper is to study the characteristics of the combined convection heat transfer and a micropolar nanofluid flow passing through an impermeable stretching sheet in a porous medium.The nanofluid flow field is affected by a magnetic field perpendicular to the sheet.The dynamic viscosity of the micropolar nanofluid changes under the influence of the magnetic field.The continuity,linear momentum,angular momentum,and energy equations are first simplified using the order of magnitude technique that,along with the applied boundary conditions and the definition of the appropriate parameters,are transferred to the similarity space using the similarity analysis.Then the resulting equations are solved using the Runge–Kutta method.The distinction of the macroscale and microscale flow fields and temperature fields resulting from different nanoparticle shapes was clarified.Increasing the Hartmann number,the vortex viscosity parameter,the magnetic parameter,the nanoparticle volume fraction,and the permeability parameter of the porous media increased the surface friction on the sheet.Increasing the vortex viscosity parameter,the magnetic parameter,and the volume fraction of the nanoparticles increases the Nusselt number.展开更多
基金the financial supports of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51776165)supported by the China Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
文摘The purpose of this paper is to study the characteristics of the combined convection heat transfer and a micropolar nanofluid flow passing through an impermeable stretching sheet in a porous medium.The nanofluid flow field is affected by a magnetic field perpendicular to the sheet.The dynamic viscosity of the micropolar nanofluid changes under the influence of the magnetic field.The continuity,linear momentum,angular momentum,and energy equations are first simplified using the order of magnitude technique that,along with the applied boundary conditions and the definition of the appropriate parameters,are transferred to the similarity space using the similarity analysis.Then the resulting equations are solved using the Runge–Kutta method.The distinction of the macroscale and microscale flow fields and temperature fields resulting from different nanoparticle shapes was clarified.Increasing the Hartmann number,the vortex viscosity parameter,the magnetic parameter,the nanoparticle volume fraction,and the permeability parameter of the porous media increased the surface friction on the sheet.Increasing the vortex viscosity parameter,the magnetic parameter,and the volume fraction of the nanoparticles increases the Nusselt number.