Ahmadi Azar Ali, Jalili Bahram, Jalili Payam, Domiri Ganji Davood
Department of Mechanical Engineering, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, P.O. Box 484, Babol, Iran.
Sci Rep. 2023 Dec 9;13(1):21833. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-48988-4.
The purpose of this theoretical study is to explore the behavior of an electrically conducting micropolar fluid when subjected to a uniform magnetic field along the vertical axis between two stretching disks as the structure of the problem changes. In this context, structural changes refer to alterations in the distance between the two discs or the stretching rate of the two discs. The governing equations of this problem are a set of nonlinear coupled partial differential equations, which are transformed into a nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equation set by a similarity transformation. The transformation results in four dimensionless quantities and their derivatives that appear in the equations. Nine dimensionless parameters are derived via similarity variables, including stretching Reynolds number, magnetic parameter, radiation parameter, Prandtl number, Eckert number, Schmidt number, and three micropolar parameters. Previous similarity solutions focused on analyzing the effect of changes in each parameter on the four dimensionless quantities. However, this type of analysis is mainly mathematical and does not provide practical results. This study's primary novelty is to redefine the magnetic parameter, Eckert number, stretching Reynolds number, and two micropolar parameters to analyze physical parameters that depend on the stretching rate of the two discs or the distance between them. The semi-analytical hybrid analytical and numerical method (HAN-method) is used to solve the equations. The results demonstrate that structural changes affect all five quantities of radial velocity, axial velocity, microrotation, temperature, and concentration. The study's most significant finding is that an increase in the stretching rate of the two disks causes a sharp increase in temperature and Nusselt number. Conversely, increasing the distance between the two disks causes a sharp decrease in micro-rotation and wall couple stress. They were compared to a previous study in a specific case to validate the results' accuracy.
本理论研究的目的是探讨当导电微极流体在两个拉伸圆盘之间沿垂直轴受到均匀磁场作用时,随着问题结构的变化其行为表现。在此背景下,结构变化指的是两个圆盘之间距离的改变或两个圆盘的拉伸速率的改变。该问题的控制方程是一组非线性耦合偏微分方程,通过相似变换将其转化为一组非线性耦合常微分方程。该变换导致方程中出现四个无量纲量及其导数。通过相似变量导出了九个无量纲参数,包括拉伸雷诺数、磁参数、辐射参数、普朗特数、埃克特数、施密特数以及三个微极参数。以往的相似解主要侧重于分析每个参数的变化对这四个无量纲量的影响。然而,这类分析主要是数学上的,并未提供实际结果。本研究的主要创新之处在于重新定义磁参数、埃克特数、拉伸雷诺数以及两个微极参数,以分析依赖于两个圆盘拉伸速率或它们之间距离的物理参数。采用半解析混合分析和数值方法(HAN 方法)来求解方程。结果表明,结构变化会影响径向速度、轴向速度、微旋转、温度和浓度这五个量。该研究最显著的发现是,两个圆盘拉伸速率的增加会导致温度和努塞尔数急剧增加。相反,增加两个圆盘之间的距离会导致微旋转和壁面耦合应力急剧减小。在一个特定案例中,将它们与先前的研究进行了比较,以验证结果的准确性。