Parametric Analysis of the Heat transfer behavior of the Nano-particle
ionic-Liquid Flow between Concentric Cylinders
Abstract
The paper urges to investigate the enhanced viscous behavior and the
heat transfer phenomenon of the unsteady ionic-nano-liquid squeezing
flow between the two infinite parallel concentric cylinders. The
physical scenario is transformed into a partial differential equation
system by the modified Navier stokes equation, the Poisson equation, the
Nernst-Plank equations, and the energy equation. The PDE’s system is
transformed into the coupled ODE’s system by opting for
suitable/applicable transformation. The solution of the coupled
differential equations system is carried out by the Parametric
continuation method (PCM)and BVP4c Matlab based methods. The effect of
the squeeze number, the nanoparticle volume fraction, the Prandtl
number, Schmidt number, and the heat source parameter on nano-ionic
liquid flow, heat transfer rate, and other physical variables are
tabulated, graphed, and discussed. The analysis of the Nusselt number
for Cu-water, Al2O3-water, and TiO2- water in response to the Prandtl
number(Pr), the Squeeze number(S), and the heat source parameter(Hs)
concludes that the Cu-nanoparticle is the best choice for the heat
transfer function through the contracting flow channel with the
increasing heat transfer parameter(Hs). It is also noticed that the
thermal boundary layer tends to decrease for the increasing Prandtl
number(Pr) in Cu-water, Al2O3-water, and TiO2-water, which indicates
that the convection mode of heat transfer is not efficient in this whole
flow set-up. Applications of this study involved in the demands to
understand the interfacial electrokinetic phenomena in the liquid
transport processes which increase significantly as various
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and MicroFluidic devices involve
liquid transport processes.