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Offers guidelines for surveyors dealing with pitched metal roofs built between the early 1970s and the present. Discusses roof pitch recommendations, insulation, linings, fastenings, leaks, corrosion, and sealants. Summarises that surveyors should consider particular points of corrosion, condensation, leaks and insulations when dealing with metal roofs.
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FEW visitors to the Business Efficiency Exhibition held in London a few weeks ago can be in any doubt that electronic “brains” and other electro‐mechanical developments will be…
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FEW visitors to the Business Efficiency Exhibition held in London a few weeks ago can be in any doubt that electronic “brains” and other electro‐mechanical developments will be used more widely in business in future for preparing up‐to‐date records of production and sales and for doing such laborious, time‐consuming tasks as the bookkeeping necessary in the banks.
Nur Syahirah Wahid, Norihan Md Arifin, Najiyah Safwa Khashi'ie, Ioan Pop, Norfifah Bachok and Ezad Hafidz Hafidzuddin
The purpose of this paper is to numerically investigate the hybrid nanofluid flow with the imposition of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and radiation effects alongside the convective…
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The purpose of this paper is to numerically investigate the hybrid nanofluid flow with the imposition of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and radiation effects alongside the convective boundary conditions over a permeable stretching/shrinking surface.
Design/methodology/approach
The mathematical model is formulated in the form of partial differential equations (PDEs) and are then transformed into the form of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by using the similarity variables. The deriving ODEs are solved numerically by using the bvp4c solver in MATLAB software. Stability analysis also has been performed to determine the stable solution among the dual solutions obtain. For method validation purposes, a comparison of numerical results has been made with the previous studies.
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The flow and the heat transfer of the fluid at the boundary layer are described through the plot of the velocity profile, temperature profile, skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number that are presented graphically. Dual solutions are obtained, but only the first solution is stable. For the realizable solution at the shrinking surface, the proliferation of nanoparticle volume fraction (copper) and magnetic (magnetohydrodynamics) parameters can impede the boundary layer separation. Also, Biot number could enhance the temperature profile and the heat transfer rate at the shrinking surface region. The incrementation of 0.1% of Biot number has enhanced the heat transfer rate by approximately 0.1% and the incrementation of 0.5% volume fraction for copper has reduced the heat transfer rate by approximately 0.17%.
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The presented model and numerical results are original and new. It can be used as a future reference for further investigation and related practical application. The main contribution of this investigation includes giving the initial prediction and providing the numerical data for the other researchers for their future reference regarding the impacts of nanoparticles volumetric concentration towards the main physical quantities of interest in the presence of magnetic and radiation parameters with the convective boundary conditions.
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The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of surface mass transfer on the steady mixed convection flow from a vertical stretching sheet in a parallel free stream with…
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The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of surface mass transfer on the steady mixed convection flow from a vertical stretching sheet in a parallel free stream with variable wall temperature and concentration.
Design/methodology/approach
An implicit finite difference scheme in combination with the quasilinearisation technique is employed to obtain non‐similar solutions of the governing boundary layer equations for momentum, temperature and concentration fields.
Findings
The numerical results are reported here to display the effects of mixed convection parameter, ratio of buoyancy forces, surface mass transfer (suction and injection), the ratio of free stream velocity to the composite reference velocity, Prandtl number and Schmidt number on velocity, temperature and concentration profiles as well as on skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number.
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Thermophysical properties of the fluid in the flow model are assumed to be constant except the density variations causing a body force term in the momentum equation. The Boussinesq approximation is invoked for the fluid properties to relate density changes, and to couple in this way the temperature and concentration fields to the flow field. The concentration of diffusing species is assumed to be very small in comparison with other chemical species far away from the surface. Hence the Soret and Dufour effects are neglected. The stretching sheet is assumed to be subject to a power‐law wall temperature as well as to a power‐law wall concentration, in a parallel free stream.
Practical implications
Convective heat and mass transfer over a vertical stretching sheet in a parallel stream is very important for various design of technological process are hot rolling, wire drawing, glass‐fiber paper production, both metal and polymer sheets, for instance, in cooling of an infinite metallic plate in a cooling bath, the boundary layer along material handling conveyors, etc.
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The paper studies the combined effects of thermal and mass diffusion over a vertical stretching sheet with surface mass transfer.
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Y.Y. Lok, I. Pop, D.B. Ingham and N. Amin
The purpose of this paper is to study theoretically the steady two‐dimensional mixed convection flow of a micropolar fluid impinging obliquely on a stretching vertical sheet. The…
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The purpose of this paper is to study theoretically the steady two‐dimensional mixed convection flow of a micropolar fluid impinging obliquely on a stretching vertical sheet. The flow consists of a stagnation‐point flow and a uniform shear flow parallel to the surface of the sheet. The sheet is stretching with a velocity proportional to the distance from the stagnation point while the surface temperature is assumed to vary linearly. The paper attempts also to show that a similarity solution of this problem can be obtained.
Design/methodology/approach
Using a similarity transformation, the basic partial differential equations are first reduced to ordinary differential equations which are then solved numerically using the Keller box method for some values of the governing parameters. Both assisting and opposing flows are considered. The results are also obtained for both strong and weak concentration cases.
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These results provide information about the effect of a/c (ratio of the stagnation point velocity and the stretching velocity), σ (shear flow parameter) and K (material parameter) on the flow and heat transfer characteristics in mixed convection flow near a non‐orthogonal stagnation‐point on a vertical stretching surface. The results show that the shear stress increases as K increases, while the heat flux from the surface of the sheet decreases with an increase in K.
Research limitations/implications
The results in this paper are valid only in the small region around the stagnation‐point on the vertical sheet. It is found that for smaller Prandtl number, there are difficulties in the numerical computation due to the occurrence of reversed flow for opposing flow. An extension of this work could be performed for the unsteady case.
Originality/value
The present results are original and new for the micropolar fluids. They are important in many practical applications in manufacturing processes in industry.
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Asymptotic methods are employed to derive the long wave equations governing the fluid dynamics of thin, time‐dependent, incompressible, vertical, planar liquid sheets at low…
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Asymptotic methods are employed to derive the long wave equations governing the fluid dynamics of thin, time‐dependent, incompressible, vertical, planar liquid sheets at low Reynolds numbers subjected to London‐van der Waals body forces and gravity. Analytical solutions for steady, viscous sheets in gravitational and zero‐gravity environments are obtained for large surface tension. Numerical studies of planar liquid sheets at low Reynolds numbers with no surface tension indicate that, for plane stagnation flows, the deceleration of the sheet as it approaches the solid wall decreases as the London‐van der Waals forces are increased, the effects of these body forces decrease as the Froude number is increased, and, for Reynolds‐to‐Froude numbers greater than one, the thickening of the sheet as it approaches the solid boundary increases as the Hamaker constant is increased. Numerical experiments of film casting processes with three different flow approximations which account for or neglect inertia and/or the gravitational pull have also been performed and indicate that for high take‐up speeds, a boundary layer is formed at the downstream boundary, the thickness of this layer decreases as the London‐van der Waals forces are increased, and, for Reynold‐to‐Froude numbers larger than one, the leading‐order thickness and axial velocity component are very sensitive to the value of the Hamaker constant.
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Iskandar Waini, Anuar Ishak and Ioan Pop
This paper aims to examine the hybrid nanofluid flow towards a stagnation point on an exponentially stretching/shrinking vertical sheet with buoyancy effects.
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This paper aims to examine the hybrid nanofluid flow towards a stagnation point on an exponentially stretching/shrinking vertical sheet with buoyancy effects.
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Here, the authors consider copper (Cu) and alumina (Al2O3) as hybrid nanoparticles while water as the base fluid. The governing equations are reduced to the similarity equations using similarity transformations. The resulting equations are programmed in Matlab software through the bvp4c solver to obtain their solutions.
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The authors found that the heat transfer rate is greater for Al2O3-Cu/water hybrid nanofluid if compared to Cu/water nanofluid. Besides, the non-uniqueness of the solutions is observed for certain physical parameters. The authors also notice that the bifurcation of the solutions occurs in the downward buoyant force and the shrinking regions. In addition, the first solution of the skin friction and heat transfer coefficients increase with the added hybrid nanoparticles and the mixed convection parameter. The temporal stability analysis shows that one of the solutions is stable as time evolves.
Originality/value
The present work is dealing with the problem of a mixed convection flow of a hybrid nanofluid towards a stagnation point on an exponentially stretching/shrinking vertical sheet, with the buoyancy effects is taken into consideration. The authors show that two solutions are obtained for a single value of parameter for both stretching and shrinking cases, as well as for both buoyancy aiding and opposing flows. A temporal stability analysis then shows that only one of the solutions is stable and physically reliable as time evolves.
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P.M. Patil, S. Roy and Ali J. Chamkha
The purpose of this paper is to consider steady two‐dimensional mixed convection flow along a vertical semi‐infinite power‐law stretching sheet. The velocity and temperature of…
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The purpose of this paper is to consider steady two‐dimensional mixed convection flow along a vertical semi‐infinite power‐law stretching sheet. The velocity and temperature of the sheet are assumed to vary in a power‐law form.
Design/methodology/approach
The problem is formulated in terms of non‐similar equations. These equations are solved numerically by an efficient implicit, iterative, finite‐difference method in combination with a quasi‐linearization technique.
Findings
It was found that the skin‐friction coefficient increased with the ratio of free‐stream velocity to the composite reference velocity and the buoyancy parameter while it decreased with exponent parameter. The heat transfer rate increased with the Prandtl number, buoyancy parameter and the exponent parameter.
Practical implications
A very useful source of information for researchers on the subject of convective flow over stretching sheets.
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This paper illustrates mixed convective flow over a power‐law stretched surface with variable wall temperature.
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Ankita Bisht and Rajesh Sharma
The purpose of this study is to provide a numerical investigation of Casson nanofluid along a vertical nonlinear stretching sheet with variable thermal conductivity and viscosity.
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The purpose of this study is to provide a numerical investigation of Casson nanofluid along a vertical nonlinear stretching sheet with variable thermal conductivity and viscosity.
Design/methodology/approach
The boundary-layer equations are presented in the dimensionless form using proper non-similar transformations. The subsequent non-dimensional nonlinear partial differential equations are solved using the implicit finite difference technique. To linearize the nonlinear terms present in these equations, the quasilinearization technique is used.
Findings
The investigation showed graphically the temperature, velocity and nanoparticle volume fraction for particular included physical parameters. It is observed that the velocity profile decreases with an increase in the values of Casson fluid parameter while increases with an increase in the viscosity variation parameter. The temperature profile enhances for large values of velocity variation parameter and thermal conductivity parameter while it reduces for large values of thermal buoyancy parameter. Further, the Nusselt number and skin-friction coefficient are introduced which are helpful in determining the physical aspects of Casson nanofluid flow.
Practical implications
The immediate control of heat transfer in the industrial system is crucial because of increasing energy prices. Recently, nanotechnology is proposed to control the heat transfer phenomenon. Ongoing research in complex nanofluid has been fruitful in various applications such as solar thermal collectors, nuclear reactors, electronic equipment and diesel–electric conductor. A reasonable amount of nanoparticle when added to the base fluid in solar thermal collectors serves to deeper absorption of incident radiation, and hence it upgrades the efficiency of the solar thermal collectors.
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The non-similar solution of Casson nanofluid due to a vertical nonlinear stretching sheet with variable viscosity and thermal conductivity is discussed in this work.
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Saeed Dinarvand, Reza Hosseini and Ioan Pop
The current study is mainly motivated by the need to the development of the transient MHD mixed convection stagnation-point flow and heat transfer of an electrically conducting…
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The current study is mainly motivated by the need to the development of the transient MHD mixed convection stagnation-point flow and heat transfer of an electrically conducting nanofluid over a vertical permeable stretching/shrinking sheet by means of Tiwari-Das nanofluid model. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the parameters governing the flow i.e. the nanoparticle volume fraction, the unsteadiness parameter, the magnetic parameter, the wall transpiration parameter, the mixed convection parameter and the velocity ratio parameter on dimensionless velocity and temperature distributions, skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number.
Design/methodology/approach
The mathematical model has been formulated based on Tiwari-Das nanofluid model. Three different types of water-based nanofluid with copper, aluminum oxide (alumina) and titanium dioxide (titania) as nanoparticles are considered in this investigation. Using appropriate similarity variables, the governing equations are transformed into nonlinear ordinary differential equations in the dimensionless stream function, which is solved analytically by the well-know homotopy analysis method. The present simulations agree closely with the previous studies in the especial cases.
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The results show that by increasing the nanoparticle volume fraction, the unsteadiness parameter, the magnetic parameter, the wall transpiration parameter, the mixed convection parameter or reducing the velocity ratio parameter, the skin friction coefficient enhances. Furthermore, the local Nusselt number enhances with different rates by increasing the nanoparticle volume fraction, the unsteadiness parameter, the magnetic parameter, the wall transpiration parameter, the mixed convection parameter and the velocity ratio parameter. Besides, the skin friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number are highest for copper-water nanofluid compared to the alumina-water and titania-water nanofluids.
Originality/value
Tiwari-Das nanofluid model has not been applied for the flow with these characteristics as mentioned in the paper. A comprehensive survey on boundary layer behavior has been presented. There are few studies regarding as analysis on thermal and hydrodynamics boundary layer. All plots presented in the paper are new and did not report in any other study. The effects of the parameters governing the flow on skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number have been illustrated in the paper while there are some conflicts with previous published article that have been interpreted in details in the paper.
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