It is believed that the failure mode of metal nanowires under tensile loading is the result of the nucleation and propagation of dislocations. Such failure modes can be slip, partial slip or twinning and therefore they are regarded as local deformation. Here we provide numerical and theoretical evidences to show that global deformation is another predominant failure mode of nanowires under tens...

A study on the flow of non-Newtonian nanofluid between two coaxial cylinders is made. Two types of series solutions are constructed by choosing constant and variable viscosity. The effects of heat transfer analysis on nanoparticles in the presence of magnetohydrodynamics, porosity and partial slip are also examined. To drive the solutions of nonlinear boundary value problems, we have used a rec...

Using Molecular Dynamics simulations of a polymer liquid flowing past flat and patterned surfaces, we investigate the influence of corrugation, wettability and pressure on slippage and friction at the solid– liquid interface. For one-dimensional, shallow, rectangular grooves, we observe a gradual crossover between the Wenzel state, where the liquid fills the grooves, and the Cassie state, where...

The simulation of colloidal particles suspended in solvent requires an accurate representation of the interactions between the colloids and the solvent molecules. Using the multiparticle collision dynamics method, we examine several proposals for stick boundary conditions, studying their properties in both plane Poiseuille flow (where fluid interacts with the boundary of a stationary macroscopi...

In this study combined heat and mass transfer by mixed convective flow along a moving vertical flat plate with hydrodynamic slip and thermal convective boundary condition is investigated. Using similarity variables, the governing nonlinear partial differential equations are converted into a system of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The transformed equations are then solved us...

MHD slip flow and convective heat transfer of nanofluids over a vertical stretching surface subjected to injection has been analyzed. Two types of nanofluids such as Copper-Water nanofluid and Alumina-Water nanofluid are considered for the present study. The Boundary layer equations of motion and energy which are non-linear partial differential equations are reduced to non-linear ordinary diffe...

We examine the effect of magnetic field on boundary layer flow of an incompressible electrically conducting water-based nanofluids past a convectively heated vertical porous plate with Navier slip boundary condition. A suitable similarity transformation is employed to reduce the governing partial differential equations into nonlinear ordinary differential equations, which are solved numerically...

Fretting experiments were conducted on the (10 0) crystal (cubic) face of a single crystal Ni-base superalloy in two directions, /10 0S and /110S, to study the effect of crystallographic orientation on the fretting response in both partial slip and gross slip regimes. The study involved point contacts using a tungsten carbide (WC) ball with radius 10 mm tested at room temperature. Ball indentat...

The deformation behavior of bulk ZnO single crystals is studied by a combination of spherical nanoindentation and atomic force microscopy. Results show that ZnO exhibits plastic deformation for relatively low loads ~*4–13 mN with an ;4.2 mm radius spherical indenter!. Interestingly, the elastic–plastic deformation transition threshold depends on the loading rate, with faster loading resulting, ...

In this paper, we investigate the slip effects on the boundary layer flow and heat transfer characteristics of a power-law fluid past a porous flat plate embedded in the Darcy type porous medium. The nonlinear coupled system of partial differential equations governing the flow and heat transfer of a power-law fluid is transformed into a system of nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equation...