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Abstract
The aim here is to investigate the effects of convective heat and mass transfer in the flow of Eyring-Powell fluid past an inclined exponential stretching surface. Mathematical formulation and analysis have been performed in the presence of Soret, Dufour and thermal radiation effects. The governing partial differential equations corresponding to the momentum, energy and concentration are reduced to a set of non-linear ordinary differential equations. Resulting nonlinear system is computed for the series solutions. Interval of convergence is determined. Physical interpretation is seen for the embedded parameters of interest. Skin friction coefficient, local Nusselt number and local Sherwood number are numerically computed and examined.
Citation: Hayat T, Saeed Y, Alsaedi A, Asad S (2015) Effects of Convective Heat and Mass Transfer in Flow of Powell-Eyring Fluid Past an Exponentially Stretching Sheet. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0133831. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133831
Editor: Zhonghao Rao, China University of Mining and Technology, CHINA
Received: January 2, 2015; Accepted: July 2, 2015; Published: September 1, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Hayat et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
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Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Introduction
The flows of non-Newtonian fluids over a stretching surface with heat transfer have many applications in engineering processes like polymers extrusion, paper production, food processing, glass fiber, drawing of plastic films, slurry transporting and many others. Crane [1] initiated the pioneering work for closed form solution of viscous flow over a linear stretching surface. Afterwards a large amount of research work has been reported in this direction through different aspects of suction/blowing, heat and mass transfer, different non-Newtonian models, magnetohydrodynamics, different stretching velocities of surface etc. In particular, the combined influence of heat and mass transfer is important in several engineering applications including metallurgy, solar collectors, combustion systems, chemical engineering, nuclear reactor safety etc. Such transport processes are governed by the buoyancy forces from both thermal and mass diffusion in heating and cooling chambers, energy processes, space technology, solar power technology etc. Inspired by such facts, various researchers are still engaged for the discussion of heat and mass transfer effects in flow over a stretching surface with radiation effect (see [2–10]). It is also noted that heat and mass transfer in these studies and many others have been discussed by prescribing both the constant temperature and concentration or by constant heat and mass fluxes at the stretching surface. Recently some contributions have been made to discuss the heat transfer mechanism in such flow with convective temperature condition at the surface (see [11–20]).
In present communication, we address the convective heat and mass transfer conditions in the radiative flow of Powell-Eyring fluid past an inclined exponentially stretching surface. Soret and Dufour effects are taken into account. The considered Powell-Eyring fluid model is although mathematically complex but it has certain advantages over the other non-Newtonian fluid models. Firstly, it is deduced from kinetic theory of liquid rather than the empirical relation. Secondly, it correctly reduces to Newtonian behavior for low and high shear rates. Here suitable transformations are utilized to convert the governing partial differential equations into the ordinary differential equations. Convergent series solutions of the problems are accomplished by using homotopy analysis method (HAM [21–30]). This method is capable of solving a wide range of nonlinear problems, particularly when the nonlinearity is strong. The origin of homotopy lies in topology. Two mathematical objects are said to be homotopic if one can be continuously deformed into the other. Homotopy is widely applied in numerical techniques. The HAM here is preferred through the reasons as follows. Unlike perturbation techniques the homotopy analysis method is independent of small/large parameter. It itself can provide us with a convenient way to adjust and control the convergence region and rate of approximation series when necessary. Interesting physical quantities are analyzed through plots and numerical values.
Mathematical Formulation
We consider steady two-dimensional flow of an incompressible Powell-Eyring fluid past an exponential stretching sheet. Simultaneous effects of heat and mass transfer are considered. The sheet is inclined through angle α. Both conditions of heat and mass transfer at the surface are of convective type (see Fig 1). Under the usual boundary layer and Rosseland approximations, the present flow problem is governed by the following equations.
We introduce the following dimensionless variables
(6)
With the help of above dimensionless variables, Eq (1) is identically satisfied and Eqs (2–5) yield
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
where λ1 and λ2 are the fluid parameters, λ denotes thermal buoyancy parameter, δ stands for solutal buoyancy parameter, Pr is the Prandtl number, Du is the Dufour number, Sr is the Soret number, Sc is the Schmidt number, Bi1 is the thermal Biot number, Bi2 is the concentration Biot number and R is the radiation parameter. The definitions of these parameters are
(11)
The local Nusselt number Nux, local Sherwood number Shx and skin-friction coefficient are defined by
(12)
(13)
(14)
Dimensionless forms of Eqs (12–14) are:
(15)
(16)
(17)
where
is the local Reynolds number.
Methodology of Solution
It should be noted that there is a great freedom to choose initial guess and auxiliary linear operator. Also there are some fundamental rules which direct us to choose the mentioned parameters in more efficient way. Therefore, initial guesses for the velocity, temperature and concentration fields are taken in such a way that they satisfy the boundary conditions given in Eq (10). We choose linear operators involving base functions of the exponential type. In fact such preferences of exponential type function accelerate the convergence of the series solutions.
(18)
(19)
subject to the properties
(20)
(21)
(22)
where Ci (i = 1–7) are the arbitrary constants determined from the boundary conditions. If p ∈[0,1] denotes an embedding parameter,
,
and
the non-zero auxiliary parameters then the zeroth order deformation problems are
(23)
(24)
(25)
(26)
where Nf, Nθ and Nϕ are the nonlinear operators defined as follows:
(27)
(28)
(29)
For p = 0 and p = 1 we have
(30)
and when p variation is taken from 0 to 1 then f(η,p), θ(η,p) and ϕ(η,p) approach f0(η), θ0(η) and ϕ0(η) to f(η), θ(η) and ϕ(η). Now f, θ and ϕ in Taylor's series can be expanded as follows:
(31)
(32)
(33)
(34)
Here the convergence depends upon ,
and
. By proper choices of
,
and
, the series (31–33) converge for p = 1 and hence
(35)
(36)
(37)
The mth- order deformation problems are
(38)
(39)
(40)
(41)
(42)
(43)
(44)
The general solutions of Eqs (38–41) are given by
(45)
(46)
(47)
where
,
and
are the particular solutions. Constants Ci (i = 1–7) are determined by boundary conditions (40).
Convergence of the HAM Solution
Unlike other analytic techniques for nonlinear problems, the homotopy analysis method gives a one-parameter family (in the auxiliary parameter ) of results at any given order of approximations it is the auxiliary parameter
which provides us with a convenient way to adjust and control the convergence of approximations. Any convergent series given by the homotopy analysis method at p = 1 must be one of the exact solutions of considered nonlinear problem. Hence for the given initial guesses and auxiliary parameters, one only needs to choose proper values for
ensuring the series (38–40) converge. To determine the convergence of HAM solution, the
- curve is plotted. Figs 2–4 show that the range of admissible values of
,
and
for some fixed values of parameters are
,
and
. The series solutions converge in the whole region of η when
,
and
. It is obvious from Table 1 that series solutions converge at 25th order of approximation.
Results and Discussion
In order to get a better physical insight of the problem, the dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration fields are shown graphically. Dimensionless velocity profile f′(η) is depicted in Figs 5–8 for various values of physical parameters. Influence of fluid parameter λ1 is shown in Fig 5. By increasing λ1 the viscosity decreases and hence velocity and momentum boundary layer thickness is increased. Fig 6 presents the effect of fluid parameter λ2. Increase in λ2 shows decrease in the velocity and momentum boundary layer thickness. The inclination angle α has decreasing impact on the velocity field (see Fig 7). In fact an increase in α reduces the buoyancy forces. Combined effects of thermal and solute buoyancy parameters are depicted in Fig 8. By increasing λ and δ the buoyancy forces increase which enhance the velocity field. Figs 9–15 illustrate the temperature field for different physical parameters involved in problem. Fig 9 displays the variation of temperature profile for various values of λ1 and λ2. Larger values of these parameters correspond to the decrease in temperature and thermal boundary layer thickness. Through simultaneous increase of λ and δ the buoyancy forces are increased. As a result the temperature field is decreased (see Fig 10). Fig 11 shows that a pronounced increase is observed in the temperature and corresponding boundary layer thickness when there is an increase in thermal Biot number Bi1. Larger values of radiation parameter R have the tendency to enhance the thermal boundary layersee Fig 12. Effect of Prandtl number Pr on the temperature field is plotted in Fig 13. Increase in Prandtl number greatly reduces the temperature and thermal boundary layer. Temperature profile for collective variation of Dufour and Soret numbers is shown in Fig 14. It is noticed that an increase in Du (decreasein Sr) serves strongly to increase temperature field in the regime. Figs 15–19 illustrate the behavior of concentration field corresponding to involved physical parameters. Effect of fluid parameters (λ1 and λ2) is to decrease concentration boundary layer see Fig 15. Increase of λ and δ, has tendency to decrease the concentration field and associated boundary layer (see Fig 16). Fig 17 indicates that increase of mass Biot number enhances the concentration field. The variation of Schmidt number Sc on the concentration field is displayed in Fig 18. Larger values of Schmidt number increase the viscosity and consequently the concentration field is reduced. Combined variation of Dufour and Soret numbers is displayed in Fig 19. Increasing Dufour number Du (decreasing Soret number Sr) decreases the influence of temperature gradient on the concentration and finally it reduces the concentration field.
Tables 2–4 are prepared to see the values of local skin friction coefficient, local Nusselt and local Sherwood numbers for different embedding parameters involved in the problem. In particular, from Table 2 it is observed that increases with the increase of λ2 and α while reverse behavior is observed for larger values of λ1, λ and δ. It is noticed from Table 3 that Nusselt number decreases for larger values of λ2 and α but it increases by increasing λ1, λ, δ and R. The variations of Pr, Du, Sr and Sc on the temperature gradient can be seen in Table3. Opposite trend is observed for surface heat transfer coefficient by increasing thermal and concentration Biot numbers (Bi1 and Bi2). Local Sherwood numbers are tabulated in Table 4. It is found that the values of local Sherwood number decrease with an increase in λ2, Bi1 and Sr. It is also observed from the Table that increasing values of λ1, Bi2, Du and Sc cause the increase in mass transfer coefficient. Similar trend is observed for λ and δ here.
Conclusions
Simultaneous effects of convective heat and mass transfer in the flow of Powell-Erying fluid past an inclined exponential stretching surface with Soret and Dufour effects are investigated in this article. The following points of performed analysis are worthmentioning.
- The velocity field has opposite results for both the fluid parameters λ1 and λ2.
- Inclination angle α reduces the velocity and momentum boundary layer.
- The temperature and concentration are decreased by increasing values of fluid parameters λ1 and λ2.
- Variation of thermal and solute buoyancy parameters on the temperature and concentration fields is reverse to that of velocity.
- Prandtl number has remarkable effect on the temperature while dual behavior is observed for concentration field.
- The behaviors of thermal and mass Biot numbers corresponding to temperature and concentration are quite similar.
- Qualitatively opposite behavior is observed for temperature and concentration profiles for Soret and Dufour numbers.
- A concentration profile is decreasing function of Sc.
- As Bi1, Bi2 → ∞, the convective boundary conditions are reduced to limiting case of prescribed surface temperature and concentration respectively.
- When fluid parameters λ1 and λ2 → 0, the present problem reduces to viscous case.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TH YS SA AA. Performed the experiments: TH YS SA AA. Analyzed the data: TH YS SA AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH YS SA AA. Wrote the paper: TH YS SA AA. Fluid mechanics: TH YS SA AA.
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