Unsteady laminar MHD flow and heat transfer in the stagnation region of an impulsively spinning and translating sphere in the presence of buoyancy forces

Takhar, HS and Chamkha, AJ and Nath, G (2001) Unsteady laminar MHD flow and heat transfer in the stagnation region of an impulsively spinning and translating sphere in the presence of buoyancy forces. In: Heat and Mass Transfer, 37 (4). pp. 397-402.

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Abstract

An analysis has been carried out to determine the development of momentum and heat transfer occurring in the laminar boundary layer of an incompressible viscous electrically conducting fluid in the stagnation region of a rotating sphere caused by the impulsive motion of the free stream velocity and the angular velocity of the sphere. At the same time the wall temperature is also suddenly increased. This analysis includes both short and long-time solutions. The partial differential equations governing the flow are solved numerically using an implicit finite-difference scheme. There is a smooth transition from the short-time solution to the long-time solution. The surface shear stresses in the longitudinal and rotating, directions and the heat transfer are found to increase with time, magnetic field, buoyancy parameter and the rotation parameter.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Heat and Mass Transfer
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Springer Verlag.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics
Date Deposited:	20 Sep 2004
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:16
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/1870

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