The viscous drag on a colloidal particle pulled through solution by an optical trap is large enough that on experimentally relevant time scales the mechanical force exerted by the trap is equal and opposite the viscous drag force. The rapid mechanical equilibration allows the system to be modeled using equilibrium theory where the effects of the energy dissipation (thermodynamic disequilibrium)...

In this paper, we studied the effects of thermal radiation, Joule heating and viscous dissipation on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Marangoni convection boundary layer over a flat surface. We also investigated the influence of suction and injection on the boundary layer. Numerical results were obtained using the shooting method along with the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method. The influences of the inter...

The present paper investigates the combined effects of Soret and Dufour on free convective heat and mass transfer on the unsteady one-dimensional boundary layer flow over a vertical channel in the presence of viscous dissipation and constant suction. The governing partial differential equations are solved numerically using the implicit Crank-Nicolson method. The velocity, temperature, and conce...

The present study concentrates on the effects of viscous dissipation in laminar forced convection. A power law fluid rheology model is applied and the effect of heat conduction in the axial direction is considered negligible. The physical properties are considered constant. Assuming fully developed velocity profile, the development of the temperature profile and its asymptotic behavior are inve...

We investigated the influence of nanoscale pattern shapes, contours, and surface chemistry on wetting behavior using a combination of experimental and modeling approaches. Among the investigated topographical shapes, re-entrant geometries showed superior performance owing to their ability to restrain the liquid-air interface in accordance with Gibbs criteria. The wetting state is also controlle...

The effects of MHD free convection heat and mass transfer of power-law Non-Newtonian fluids along a stretching sheet with viscous dissipation has been analyzed. This has been done under the simultaneous action of suction, thermal radiation and uniform transverse magnetic field. The stretching sheet is assumed to continuously moving with a power-law velocity and maintaining a uniform surface hea...