๐”– Bobbio Scriptorium
โœฆ   LIBER   โœฆ

Numerical simulation for natural convection of micropolar fluids flow along slender hollow circular cylinder with wall conduction effect

โœ Scribed by Cheng-Long Chang


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
218 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
1007-5704

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

โœฆ Synopsis


This paper presents a numerical analysis of the flow and heat transfer characteristics of natural convection in a micropolar fluid flowing along a vertical slender hollow circular cylinder with conduction effects. The nonlinear formulation governing equations and their associated boundary conditions are first cast into dimensionless forms by a local non-similar transformation. The resulting equations are then solved using the cubic spline collocation method and the finite difference scheme. This study investigates the effects of the conjugate heat transfer parameter, the micropolar parameter, and the Prandtl number on the flow and the thermal fields. The conjugate heat transfer parameter reduces the solid-liquid interfacial temperature, the skin friction factor and the local heat transfer rate. The effect of wall conduction on the local heat transfer rate, interfacial temperature and skin friction factor is found to be more pronounced in a system with a greater Prandtl number. Moreover, the current results are comparing with Newtonian fluid to obtain the important results of the heat transfer and flow characteristics on micropolar fluids. It shows that an increase in the interfacial temperature, a reduction in the skin friction factor, and a reduction in the local heat transfer rate are identified in the current micropolar fluid case.


๐Ÿ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES