We formulate the problem of coupled heat and mass transfer by natural convection from a horizontal cylinder embedded in a uniform porous medium in the presence of an external magnetic Ž eld and internal heat generation or absorption effects. The cylinder surface is maintained at a constant temperature and a constant concentration and is permeable to allow for possible  uid wall suction or blow...

Laminar mixed convective flow over a three-dimensional horizontal backward-facing step heated from below at a constant temperature was numerically simulated using a finite volume technique and the most relevant hydrodynamic and thermal features for air flowing through the channel are presented in this work. The channel considered in this work has an aspect ratio AR=4, and an expansion ratio ER=...

Highly confined fluid or particle flows typically show strongly non-Newtonian behavior. In this study, the relation between the non-Newtonian behavior and the level of confinement is studied. Molecular dynamics simulations, in the canonical ensemble (i.e. the number of particles, volume and temperature are constant), are used to calculate various physical properties. Here we only present the de...

The mechanical characteristics of respiratory system tissues include visco-elastic behaviour. In particular, after mechanical unloading, i.e., a reduction in respiratory system volume, the lower stress achieved slowly increases, approaching higher constant value, due to visco-elastic stress recovery. We performed experiments in which constant deflation flow arrest was applied in rats to study t...

In the study, the thermal-hydraulic performance of the zigzag channels with circular cross-section was analyzed by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The standard K-Ꜫ turbulent scalable wall functions were used for modeling. The wall temperature was assumed constant 353 K and water was used as the working fluid. The zigzag serpentine channels with bend angles of 5 - 45° were studied for turbul...

The steady-state fully-developed laminar flow of non-Newtonian power-law fluids is examined in a circular microchannel with slip boundary condition and under an imposed constant wall heat flux. Effects of slip as well as the hydrodynamic and thermal key parameters on heat transfer and entropy generation are investigated. The results reveal that increasing the Brinkman number and the flow behavi...