Rotating cavitation is one of the flow instabilities associated with cavitation, which has been a problem for the development of turbopumps of liquid rocket engines since it causes super-synchronous shaft vibration. Recently, it is argued that rotating cavitation might also cause large repetitive stresses on blades. This paper describes about the theoretical prediction of unsteady blade forces ...

The unsteady free convection flow with thermal radiation past a vertical plate with Newtonian heating has been studied. The governing equations have been solved numerically by the implicit finite difference method of CrankNicolson's type. The variations of the fluid velocity and temperature are presented graphically. It is found that the fluid velocity decreases near the plate and it incre...

This work studies the mixed convection heat transfer from a vertical plate in bidisperse porous media with constant wall temperature. The two-velocity two-temperature model is used to derive the governing equations. The effects of the mixed convection parameter, the inter-phase heat transfer parameter, the modified thermal conductivity ratio, and the permeability ratio on the heat transfer and ...

1813-8235 (Print), 2070-8998 (Online) © 2008 ANAME Publication. All rights reserved. Received on: 1 Oct. 2008 THERMAL RADIATION EFFECTS ON MHD FREE CONVECTION FLOW PAST AN IMPULSIVELY STARTED VERTICAL PLATE WITH VARIABLE SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND CONCENTRATION S. Suneetha, N. Bhaskar Reddy and V. Ramachandra Prasad Department of Mathematics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati 517502, A. P., IN...