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Solar Radiation Assisted Mixed Convection Flow Along a Vertical Plate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2014

S. Siddiqa  and
M. A. Hossain
S. Siddiqa*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Kamra Road, Attock, Pakistan
M. A. Hossain
Affiliation:
Fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Science, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
*
saadiasiddiqa@gmail.com
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Abstract

Solar radiation assisted mixed convection boundary layer flow of Newtonian fluid along a non- reflecting, non-absorbing and ideally transparent semi-infinite vertical plate is studied here. Beer's law is used to express the solar radiation term. It is convenient to transform the non-linear dimensionless parabolic partial differential equations into (i) primitive variable formulation (PVF) and (ii) stream function formulation (SFF) before applying the numerical schemes. Coupled equations thus obtained from PVF are integrated numerically through implicit finite difference method together with the Gaussian elimination technique whereas block tridiagonal Keller-box technique is adopted to simulate the system of equations obtained from SFF. Numerical results from these two methods are also compared graphically in order to test the validation of the two schemes. However, due to less computation time and accuracy numeric results of shear stress, local Nusselt number coefficient, velocity and temperature profiles are obtained via SFF. It is found that velocity as well as temperature of the non-absorbing fluid enhances owing to the increase in solar radiation parameter.

Keywords

Mixed convectionSolar radiationNon-absorbingNon-reflectingIdeally transparent
Type
Research Article
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Journal of Mechanics , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , February 2015 , pp. N1 - N8
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Copyright © The Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, R.O.C. 2014 

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