This work studies the free convection heat transfer from a non-isothermal permeable cone with suction and temperature-dependent viscosity. A suitable coordinate transformation is used to transform the governing equations into nonsimilar boundary layer solutions, and the cubic spline collocation method is then employed to solve the obtained governing equations. The local Nusselt number is presen...

mold powders are fluxing agents used as raw materials in the steel industry, which play very important role inprocessing stability and final surface quality of a product. surface quality depends particularly on the viscosity and the heat transfer of infiltrated mold flux between the mold wall and the solidified steel shell. heat flux across the interfacial gap depends on thermal properties of s...

Mold powders are fluxing agents used as raw materials in the steel industry, which play very important role in processing stability and final surface quality of a product. Surface quality depends particularly on the viscosity and the heat transfer of infiltrated mold flux between the mold wall and the solidified steel shell. Heat flux across the interfacial gap depends on thermal properties of ...

A convection problem with temperature-dependent viscosity in an infinite layer is presented. As described, this problem has important applications in mantle convection. The existence of a stationary bifurcation is proved together with a condition to obtain the critical parameters at which the bifurcation takes place. For a general dependence of viscosity with temperature a numerical strategy fo...

Synchrotron x-ray radiography has been used to measure the viscosity of pure liquid Fe at high pressure and temperature in a large volume press. A probe sphere rising through liquid Fe at high pressure and temperature is imaged, in situ, allowing for the derivation of sample viscosity through a modified form of Stokes’ equation. The effect of pressure on viscosity is fit by the semi empirical f...

We perform numerical simulations in 3D spherical geometry to study the properties of convection in Europa’s silicate mantle using the finite-element code CitcomS including temperature-dependent viscosity. Our simulations show that thermal convection occurs if the reference viscosity is – PaS, rheological activation energy is 150-300 kJ/mol, and the viscosity contrast (due to temperature variati...