A NEW ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF NATURAL CONVECTION OF NON-NEWTONIAN NANOFLUIDS FLOW BETWEEN TWO VERTICAL FLAT PLATES BY THE GENERALIZED DECOMPOSITION METHOD (GDM)

Authors : Tabet Ismail

Pages : 2496-2508

Doi:10.18186/thermal.465731

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Publication Date : 2018-09-29

Article Type : Research

Abstract :In this work, natural convection in a non-Newtonian fluid/nanofluid between two vertical plates is investigated. The study was carried out on three types of nanofluids, namely Silver/Water, Oxide Copper-Water and  Titanium oxide/Water. The mathematical formulation gives a set of strongly coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations of the second order. These equations, characterizing velocity and temperature distributions, were solved numerically by the Runge-Kutta fourth order method, and analytically by a new Adomian of decomposition approach named the Adomian generalized method (GDM). The results show clearly the effectiveness, accuracy and applicability of the used technique (GDM). Using nanoparticles (Ag, C uO and TiO 2 ) in water as a base fluid substantially increases the coefficient of friction and characteristics of heat transfer. Compared to other works, the generalized Adomian decomposition technique (GDM) offers the advantages of precision and velocity of convergence.
Keywords : Natural Convection, Nanofluids, Analytical Methods, Adomian Generalized Method (GDM)