Stokes’ First Problem in Nanofluids
This paper discusses numerically the unsteady flow and heat transfer of a viscous fluid driven by an impulsively started infinite flat plate in a nanofluid. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into a system of ordinary differential equations, which is then solved
numerically by a shooting method. Results are presented graphically and the effects of the Brownian motion parameter Nb and the thermophoresis parameter Nt on the dimensionless heat transfer rate are discussed. It is found that the heat transfer rate is a decreasing function of both Nb and
Nt.
Keywords: Heat transfer; Stokes’s first problem; nanofluid; unsteady flow
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 June 2014
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