Mixed convection flow through a rectangular duct with at least one of the sides of the walls of the rectangle being isothermal under the influence of transversely applied magnetic field has been analyzed numerically in this study. The governing differential equations of the problem have been transformed into a system of nondimensional differential equations and then solved numerically. The dimensionless velocity, microrotation components, and temperature profiles are displayed graphically showing the effects of various values of the parameters present in the problem. The results showed that the flow field is notably influenced by the considered parameters. It is found that increasing the aspect ratio increases flow reversal, commencement of the flow reversal is observed after some critical value, and the applied magnetic field increases the flow reversal in addition to flow retardation. The microrotation components flow in opposite direction; also it is found that one component of the microrotation will show no rotational effect around the center of the duct.
A singularly perturbed time dependent convection diffusion problem is solved on a rectangular domain, using the moving mesh method which uses the equidistribution principle. The problem has a boundary at the steady state. It is shown that the numerical approximations generated by the moving mesh method converge uniformly with respect to the singular perturbation parameter. Theoretical results are obtained which are verified using numerical results.
We consider the evolution of a thin film of viscous fluid on the inside surface of a cylinder with the horizontal axis, rotating with a constant angular velocity
about this axis. We use a lubrication approximation extended to the first order in the dimensionless film thickness (including the small effects of the variation of the film
pressure across its thickness and the surface tension) and numerically we compute the time evolution of the film to a steady state.
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