TY - JOUR
TI - Investigation of heat transfer and viscous dissipation effects on the Jeffery-Hamel flow of nanofluids
AU - Moradi Amir
AU - Alsaedi Ahmed
AU - Hayat Tasawar
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2015
VL - 19
IS - 2
SP - 563
EP - 578
PT - Article
AB - This article considers the influence of heat transfer on the nonlinear  Jeffery-Hamel flow problem in a nanofluid. Analysis is performed for three  types of nanoparticles namely copper Cu, alumina Al2O3 and titania TiO2 by  considering water as a base fluid. The resulting nonlinear mathematical  problems are solved for both analytic and numerical solutions. Analytic  solution is developed by using differential transformation method (DTM)  whereas the numerical solution is presented by Runge-Kutta scheme. A  comparative study between the analytical and numerical solutions is made.  Dimensionless velocity and temperature, skin friction coefficient and Nusselt  number are addressed for the involved pertinent parameters. It is observed  that the influence of solid volume fraction of nanoparticles on the heat  transfer and fluid flow parameters is more pronounced when compared with the  type of nanoparticles. It is also found that skin friction coefficient and  Nusselt number for Al2O3 nanofluid is highest in comparison to the other two  nanoparticles.