The present investigation analysis a problem of r­­­eflection and transmission at an interface of two micropolar orthotropic piezothermoelastic media. The basic equations and constitutive relations for micropolar orthotropic piezothermoelastic media for G-L theory are derived. The expressions for amplitude ratios corresponding to reflected and transmitted waves are derived analytically. The eff...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics has become a widespread public health problem. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) on the antibacterial activity of several conventional antibiotics against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. MATERIALS AND METHODS ZnO NPs were prepared by solvothermal method and dispersed i...

This article reports a recent study on the application of a two-phase closed thermosyphon (TPCT) in a thermosyphon for economizer (TPEC). The TPEC had three sections of equal size; the evaporator, the adiabatic section, and the condenser, of 250 mm × 250 mm × 250 mm (W × L × H). The TPCT was a steel tube of 12.7-mm ID. The filling ratios chosen to study were 30, 50, and 80% with respect to the ...

The effect of uniform distribution of internal heat generation on the linear stability analysis of the Benard-Marangoni convection in an Eringen’s micropolar fluids with feedback control is investigated theoretically. The upper free surface is assumed to be non-deformable and the lower boundary is taken to be rigid and isothermal with fixed temperature and spanvanishing boundaries. The eigenval...

In this paper, we carry out a study of peristaltic motion of an incompressible micropolar fluid in an asymmetric channel. The flow analysis has been developed for low Reynolds number and long wavelength case. Exact analytic solutions have been established for the axial velocity, microrotation component and stream function. Expression for the shear stresses are also obtained. The effects of pert...

Two dimensional steady, laminar and incompressible motion of a micropolar fluid between an impermeable disk and a permeable disk is considered to investigate the influence of the Reynolds number and the micropolar structure on the flow characteristics. The main flow stream is superimposed by constant injection velocity at the porous disk. An extension of Von Karman’s similarity transformations ...

This article investigates the significance of varying radius copper nanoparticles for non-Newtonian nanofluid flow due to an extending sheet in presence a magnetic field and porous medium. The modern technological applications nanofluids have attracted researchers current era. So, impacts with micropolar fluid been taken into consideration. Three-dimensional leading equations (PDEs) momentum, c...

A computational analysis has been performed in this study to solve three-dimensional thermo-solutal natural convection a differentially heated cubical enclosure filled with micropolar CNT/water nanofluid stabilized by two types of surfactants lignin and sodium polycarboxylate. The work is carried out for different pertinent parameters as Rayleigh number (104 $$\le$$ Ra 106), parameter (0 K 10),...

A numerical simulation model for laminar flow of nanofluids in a pipe with constant heat flux on the wall was built to study the effect of the Reynolds number on convective heat transfer and pressure loss. The investigation was performed for hybrid nanofluids consisting of CuO-Cu nanoparticles and compared with CuO and Cu in which the nanoparticles have a spherical shape with size 50, 50, 50nm ...