International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research

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2005, Volume32

Issue 3

128 pages

DOI: 10.1615/InterJFluidMechRes.v32.i3

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Md Hossain
University of Dhaka

S. C. Saha
School of Computer Science, IBAIS University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rama Subba Reddy Gorla
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Ave., SH232, Cleveland, Ohio 44115, USA

In the present study we investigate the effect of viscous dissipation on natural convection from a vertical plate placed in a thermally stratified environment. The reduced equations are integrated by employing the implicit finite difference scheme of Keller box method and obtained the effect of heat due to viscous dissipation on the local skin friction and local Nusselt number at various stratification levels, for fluids having Prandtl numbers of 10, 50, and 100. Solutions are also obtained using the perturbation technique for small values of viscous dissipation parameters ξ and compared to the finite difference solutions for 0 ≤ ξ ≤ 1. Effect of viscous dissipation and temperature stratification are also shown on the velocity and temperature distributions in the boundary layer region.

DOI: 10.1615/InterJFluidMechRes.v32.i3.20 Download article, 269-280 pages

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