This study analyzes the unsteady Rivlin-Ericksen fluid and irreversibility of exponentially temperature dependent variable viscosity of hydromagnetic two-step exothermic chemical reactive flow along the channel axis with walls convective cooling. The non-Newtonian Hele-Shaw flow of Rivlin-Erickson fluid is driven by bimolecular chemical kinetic and unvarying pressure gradient. The reactive flui...

Abstract. We consider numerical approximations of incompressible Newtonian fluids having variable, possibly discontinuous, density and viscosity. Since solutions of the equations with variable density and viscosity may not be unique, numerical schemes may not converge. If the solution is unique, then approximate solutions computed using the discontinuous Galerkin method to approximate the conve...

Abstarct: Flow through pipes and heating situations find wide applications in industry. Depending on the fluid properties, temperature field in the pipe changes. This in turn results in thermodynamic irreversibility in the flow system. Thermodynamic irreversibility can be quantified through amount of entropy generation in the thermal system. Consequently, in the present study, the influence of ...

SEAWAT is a finite-difference computer code designed to simulate coupled variable-density ground water flow and solute transport. This paper describes a new version of SEAWAT that adds the ability to simultaneously model energy and solute transport. This is necessary for simulating the transport of heat and salinity in coastal aquifers for example. This work extends the equation of state for fl...

Laminar free convection flow of viscous, incompressible fluid with variable viscosity and viscous dissipation through two horizontal parallel walls embedded in a porous medium is studied. Arrhenius model is used in which the variable viscosity is used to be decreasing exponentially with temperature. An approximation technique is defined to obtain the solution of the coupled non-linear equations...

Forced displacement of oil by polymer flooding in oil reservoir is one of the effective methods of enhanced (tertiary) oil recovery. A classical model of this process within Hele-Shaw approximation involves three-layer fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell having a variable viscosity fluid in the intermediate layer between oil and water. The goal here is to find an optimal viscosity profile of the intermed...

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are widely considered as a possible source of heating for various parts of the outer solar atmosphere. Among the main energy dissipation mechanisms which convert the energy of damped MHD waves into thermal energy are collisional dissipation (resistivity) and viscosity. The presence of neutral atoms in the partially ionized plasmas of the solar photosphere, chromo...

This chapter deals with computation of viscosity of 35 alcohols at 20C with the computational tools Multi-linear Regression (MLR) and Associative Neural Network(ASNN) . The four descriptors are used which are variable Zagreb index, Number of Hydroxyl Groups(NOH), Molecular Weight (MW) and Number of Carbon atoms (Nc). MLR is used to optimize the parameter(λ) in the variable Zagreb index by minim...

The present study deals with the analysis of the effects of radiative heat transfer of micropolar fluid flow over a porous and stretching sheet in the presence of magnetic field. The dynamic viscosity and thermal conductivity coefficient have formulated by temperature-dependent relations to obtain more exact results. The flow is supposed two-dimensional, incompressible, steady and laminar and t...

Résumé : Nous avons mesuré la fréquence de formation de panaches dans une expérience de convection thermique à Pr >>1. Comme la viscosité du fluide utilisé varie fortement avec la température, les couches limites chaude et froide ont différentes épaisseurs et viscosités. Ceci entraîne des fréquences différentes pour ces couches. Il semblerait qu’il y ait une interaction directe entre les couche...