Thermal instability of a nonhomogeneous power-law nanofluid in a porous   layer with horizontal throughflow

doi:10.1016/j.jnnfm.2014.09.006

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	Thermal instability of a nonhomogeneous power-law nanofluid in a porous layer with horizontal throughflow
	Kang, Jianhong ; Zhou, Fubao ; Tan, Wenchang ; Xia, Tongqiang
刊名	非牛顿流体力学杂志
	2014
关键词	Nanofluid Shear thinning Power-law model Thermal instability HEAT-TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT NANO-FLUIDS CONVECTION ONSET CONDUCTIVITY TRANSPORT MEDIA MODEL
DOI	10.1016/j.jnnfm.2014.09.006
英文摘要	Despite the experimental observation of shear-thinning rheological behavior depending on the nanoparticle volume fraction, nanofluids were treated as either Newtonian or viscoelastic fluids in previous studies on thermal convection. In this work, taking into account the shear-thinning rheology, Brownian diffusion and thermophoresis of nanofluids, the onset of thermal convection in a nonhomogeneous nano-fluid-saturated porous layer with throughflow is investigated. The power-law model is adopted to describe the shear-thinning behavior of nanofluids. The combined effects of Lewis number, Peclet number and power-law index on the thermal instability are analyzed. It is found that the most unstable perturbations are transverse rolls, and both traveling-wave and oscillatory modes may occur. The critical Rayleigh number can be significantly reduced or increased with the increasing power-law index, mainly depending on the value of Peclet number. Furthermore, the decrease of Lewis number can promote or suppress the onset of thermal convection, depending on whether the nanoparticle distribution at the basic state is bottom-heavy or top-heavy. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.; http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000345804900006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 ; Mechanics; SCI(E); EI; 4; ARTICLE; jhkang@cumt.edu.cn; 50-56; 213
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/207324]
专题	工学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kang, Jianhong,Zhou, Fubao,Tan, Wenchang,et al. Thermal instability of a nonhomogeneous power-law nanofluid in a porous layer with horizontal throughflow[J]. 非牛顿流体力学杂志,2014.
APA	Kang, Jianhong,Zhou, Fubao,Tan, Wenchang,&Xia, Tongqiang.(2014).Thermal instability of a nonhomogeneous power-law nanofluid in a porous layer with horizontal throughflow.非牛顿流体力学杂志.
MLA	Kang, Jianhong,et al."Thermal instability of a nonhomogeneous power-law nanofluid in a porous layer with horizontal throughflow".非牛顿流体力学杂志 (2014).