In this study, the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) boundary layer of stagnation-point flow in a nanofluid was investigated. The Navier–Stokes equations were reduced to a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations using a similarity transform. The similarity equations were solved for three types of nanoparticles: copper, alumina and titania with water as the base fluid, to inve...

1. Three men and seven women, 25-40 yr of age, were asked to use the thumb and index fingers to grasp, lift, and hold the armature of a linear motor generating a 2.0-N opposing force (simulating an object weighing approximately 200 g) for 2 s. The surface in contact with the fingers was composed of smooth or polyamide plastic etched with 1.0-mm high Braille beads separated at 2.0- or 3.0-mm int...

boundary-layeredge is still slightly freestreamdependent, the level of eddy viscosity and therefore also the skin-friction coefŽ cient are not. Furthermore, the velocity distribution is consistent with the law-of-the-wall solution. As a second test case, the RAE2822 airfoil is considered (in particular, case 9 of Ref. 11). Figure 2 compares the pressure and skinfriction distributions of the dif...

An analytical study of free convection flow near an impulsively started infinite vertical plate with Newtonian heating in the presence of thermal radiation and constant mass diffusion was performed. The mathematical model reduced to a system of coupled linear partial differential equations for the velocity, the temperature, and the concentration; the closed-form exact solutions were obtained by...

This paper examines the forced convection flow of incompressible, electrically conducting viscous fluid past a sharp wedge in the presence of heat generation or absorption with an applied magnetic field. The system of partial differential equations governing Falkner Skan wedge flow and heat transfer is first transformed into a system of ordinary differential equations using similarity transform...

This article can be considered as an extension of the paper of Fukagata et al. Phys. Fluids 14, L73 2002 which derived an analytical expression for the constituent contributions to skin friction in a turbulent channel, pipe, and plane boundary layer flows. In this paper, we extend the theoretical analysis of Fukagata et al. formerly limited to canonical cases with two-dimensional mean flow to a...

An analytical study was performed to study effects of thermo-diffusion and chemical reactions on a three-dimensional MHD mixed convective flow of dissipative fluid along an infinite vertical porous plate with transverse sinusoidal suction velocity. The parabolic partial differential equations governing the fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer were solved using perturbation technique and...