Mixed convection in gravity-driven nano-liquid film containing both nanoparticles and gyrotactic microorganisms

doi:10.1007/s10483-015-1901-7

Abstract

Abstract:

Analysis of a gravity-induced film flow of a fluid containing both nanoparticles and gyrotactic microorganisms along a convectively heated vertical surface is presented. The Buongiorno model is applied. Two kinds of boundary conditions, the passive and the active boundary conditions, are considered to investigate this film flow phenomenon. Through a set of similarity variables, the ordinary differential equations that describe the conservation of the momentum, the thermal energy, the nanoparticles, and the microorganisms are derived and then solved numerically by an efficient finite difference technique. The effects of various physical parameters on the profiles of momentum, thermal energy, nanoparticles, microorganisms, local skin friction, local Nusselt number, local wall mass flux, and local wall motile microorganisms flux are investigated. It is expected that the passively controlled nanofluid model can be much more easily achieved and applied in real circumstances than the actively controlled model.

Key words: passively controlled model, convective boundary condition, gyrotactic microorganisms, nanofluid film flow, actively controlled model, bioconvection, gravity-driven

2010 MSC Number:

O361

A. RAEES;Hang XU;Qiang SUN;I. POP. Mixed convection in gravity-driven nano-liquid film containing both nanoparticles and gyrotactic microorganisms. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition), 2015, 36(2): 163-178.

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