Analysis in Flow Stagnation Point Flow of a Nanofluid
Prof. Sardar Muhammad Bilal
Dr. Murad Ali Shah
Special Issue Information
Flow behavior in domain where local velocity of fluid drops to zero and pressure becomes maximum is renowned as stagnation region. Analysis about stagnant flow of viscous/non-viscous fluids possess several promising applications in engineering and scientific problems. Description about flow characterization near stagnation point assist in design of thrust bearing and radial diffusers, drag reduction and transportation cooling and thermal recovery. Analysis of problems concerning with heat transfer enhancement phenomenon possesses superb significance due to its impact on industrial sector which plays vital role in driving economy. All production and manufacturing procedures in large scale sector is immensely dependent on appropriate transfer of heat. In addition, heat transfer play vital role in many daily life aspects of society, such as food production, energy storage technology through solar, transportation fuels, management of resources for homes and building, heat exchangers, nuclear and power plants, biorefineries, biofuels and bioproducts, targeted drug delivery system, production of medicinal instruments. Moreover, most of operating systems are runed by liquids which are capable of high heat transferring characteristics. So, due to advancement in technological and scientific disciplines it is compulsory need to develop such liquids which are capable of fulfilling highly need energy requirements. Nanoparticles are added in the base fluid to acqurie needed requirements. So, study of nanofluid especially in stagnation point region is very valuable in numerous engineering processes.
This Special Issue focuses on all aspects related to stagnation flow of Newtonain/non-Newtonian nanofluids on open domain under boundary layer approach as well in closed domains
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Modelling and analysis of rheological models with stagnation point effect.
Alogorithm or software based coding for simulations.
Computational Schemcs (Finite difference, Fintie element, shooting methods)
Nano or hybrid nanofluids with different models
Oblique stagnation point flow
Heat and mass transfer problems
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