This paper presents a linear stability analysis of natural convection in a horizontal layer of a viscoelastic nanofluid. The Oldroyd B model was utilized to describe the rheological behavior of a viscoelastic nanofluid. The model used for the nanofluid incorporated the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. The onset criterion for stationary and oscillatory convection was derived analyt...

Transport properties of nanofluids are extensively studied last decade. This has been motivated by the use of nanosized systems in various applications. The viscosity of nanofluids is of great significance as the application of nanofluids is always associated with their flow. However, despite the fairly large amount of available experimental information, there is a lack of systematic data on th...

Dispersion stability of nanoparticles in the liquid media is of great importance to the utilization in practice. This study aims to investigate the effects of mechanical dispersion method on the dispersibility of functionalized TiO2 nanoparticles in the transformer oil. Dispersion methods, including stirring, ultrasonic bath, and probe processes, were systematically tested to verify their versa...

The present study addresses the fluid transport behaviour of flow gold (Au)-copper (Cu)/biomagnetic blood hybrid nanofluid in an inclined irregular stenosis artery as a consequence varying viscosity and Lorentz force. nonlinear equations are transformed into dimensionless form by using nonsimilar variables. finite-difference technique (FTCS) is involved computing equations. significant paramete...

The paper presents an analytical solution for dispersion of a solute in the peristaltic motion of a micropolar fluid in the presence of both homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions. The average effective dispersion coefficient has been found using Taylor’s limiting condition under long wavelength approximation. The effects of various relevant parameters on the average coefficient of di...

−− The transformation group theoretic approach is applied to the system of equations governing the unsteady boundary layer flow of a micropolar fluid near the rear stagnation point of a plane surface in a porous media. The application of a two-parameter group reduces the number of independent variables by two, and consequently the system of governing partial differential equations with boundary...

To fill the existing literature gap, numerical solutions for oblique stagnation-point flow of Cu-Al2O3/H2O hybrid nanofluid past a shrinking surface are computed and analyzed. The computation, using similarity transformation bvp4c solver, results in dual solutions. Stability analysis then shows that first solution is stable with positive smallest eigenvalues. Besides that, addition Al2O3 nanopa...

Heat transfer due to forced convection of copper water based nanofluid in the presence of buoyancy has been predicted by the Artificial Neural network (ANN) and Gene Expression Programming (GEP). The present nanofluid is formed by mixing copper nano particles in water and the volume fractions are considered here are 0% to 15% and the Reynolds number (Re) are varying from 80 to 180. The adding a...

Nanofluids, which are engineered suspensions of nanoparticles in a solvent such as water, have been found to show enhanced coolant properties such as higher critical heat flux and surface wettability at modest concentrations, which is a useful characteristic in nuclear power plants (NPPs). This study attempted to provide an example of engineering applications in NPPs using nanofluid technology....