Abderrahim Wakif

Bio: Abderrahim Wakif is an academic researcher from University of Hassan II Casablanca. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nanofluid & Heat transfer. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 81 publications receiving 1813 citations.

Thermal radiation and surface roughness effects on the thermo-magneto-hydrodynamic stability of alumina–copper oxide hybrid nanofluids utilizing the generalized Buongiorno’s nanofluid model

Abstract: Sequel to the fact that hybrid nanofluidic systems (e.g. scalable micro-/nanofluidic device) exhibit greater thermal resistance with increasing nanoparticle concentration, little is known on the significance of thermal radiation, surface roughness and linear stability of water conveying alumina and copper oxide nanoparticles. This study presents the effects of thermal radiation and surface roughness on the complex dynamics of water conveying alumina and copper oxide nanoparticles, in the case where the thermophysical properties of the resulting mixture vary meaningfully with the volume fraction of solid nanomaterials, as well as with the Brownian motion and thermophoresis microscopic phenomena. Based on the linear stability theory and normal mode analysis method, the basic partial differential equations governing the transport phenomenon were non-dimensionalized to obtain the simplified stability equations. The optimum values of the critical thermal Rayleigh number depicting the onset of thermo-magneto-hydrodynamic instabilities were obtained using the power series method and the Chock–Schechter numerical integration. The increase in the strength of Lorentz forces, thermal radiation and surface roughness has a stronger stabilizing impact on the appearance of convection cells. On the contrary, the stability diminishes with the increasing values of the volumetric fraction and diameter of nanomaterials. The partial substitution of the alumina nanoparticles by the copper oxide nanomaterials in the mixture stabilizes importantly the hybrid nanofluidic medium.

Numerical Analysis of the Unsteady Natural Convection MHD Couette Nanofluid Flow in the Presence of Thermal Radiation Using Single and Two-Phase Nanofluid Models for Cu–Water Nanofluids

Abstract: The unsteady Couette nanofluid flow with heat transfer is investigated numerically for copper–water nanofluids under the combined effects of thermal radiation and a uniform transverse magnetic field with variable thermo-physical properties, in the case where the flow is established vertically between two parallel plates, so that one of them has an accelerated motion. The homogeneous single-phase model (i.e., Tiwari and Das’s nanofluid model) and the two-phase mixture model (i.e., Buongiorno’s nanofluid model) are utilized in this study together with Corcione’s model to further investigate and clarify the differences between those models and evaluate the validity of the single-phase model for studying the unsteady natural convection MHD Couette nanofluid flow with thermal radiation. In this investigation, we assume that the studied nanofluid is electrically conducting and has a Newtonian rheological behavior. The nonlinear dynamical system of partial differential equations are solved numerically by means of the Gear–Chebyshev–Gauss–Lobatto collocation technique for zero nanoparticles mass flux and no-slip impermeable conditions at the isothermal vertical plates. In a special case, the present numerical solution is also validated analytically and numerically with the earlier available results. For both nanofluid models, the effects of major parameters on the dimensionless velocity, temperature and volumetric fraction of nanoparticles are analysed via representative profiles, whereas the skin friction factor and the heat transfer rate are estimated numerically and discussed through tabular illustrations.

Influence of a uniform transverse magnetic field on the thermo-hydrodynamic stability in water-based nanofluids with metallic nanoparticles using the generalized Buongiorno’s mathematical model

Abstract: The onset of nanofluid convection in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field is investigated numerically based on the non-homogeneous Buongiorno’s mathematical model. In this study, we use the latest experimental correlations and powerful analytical models for expressing the thermo-physical properties of some electrically conducting nanofluids, such as copper-water, sliver-water and gold-water nanofluids, in which the Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects on slip flow in nanofluids are taken into account in this model (i.e., two-phase transport model). In this paper, we assume that the nanofluid has Newtonian behavior, confined horizontally between two infinite impermeable boundaries and heated from below, in such a way that the nanoparticles tend to concentrate near the upper wall. Considering the basic state of the nanofluidic system, the linear stability theory has been successfully applied to obtain the principal stability equations, which are solved numerically for an imposed volumetric fraction of nanoparticles and no-slip impermeable conditions at the isothermal walls bounding the nanofluid layer. The linear boundary-value problem obtained in this investigation is converted into a pure initial-value problem, so that we can solve it numerically by the fourth-fifth-order Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method. The generalized Buongiorno’s mathematical model proposed in this study allows performing a highly accurate computational analysis. In addition, the obtained results show that the stability of the studied nanofluidic system depends on several parameters, namely, the magnetic Chandrasekhar number Q , the reference value for the volumetric fraction of nanoparticles $ \phi_0$ and the size of nanoparticles $ d_p$ . In this analysis, the thermo-hydrodynamic stability of the studied nanofluid is controlled through the critical thermal Rayleigh number $ R_{ac}$ , which characterizes the onset of convection cells, whose size is $ L_c=2\pi/a_c$ . Furthermore, the effects of various pertinent parameters on the critical stability parameters $ R_{ac}$ and $ a_c$ are discussed in more detail through graphical and tabular illustrations, for three types of nanofluids including copper-water, sliver-water, and gold-water.

Novel Physical Insights into the Thermodynamic Irreversibilities Within Dissipative EMHD Fluid Flows Past over a Moving Horizontal Riga Plate in the Coexistence of Wall Suction and Joule Heating Effects: A Comprehensive Numerical Investigation

Abstract: In the case of an electro-magneto-hydrodynamic actuator, little is known about the thermo-magneto-hydrodynamic irreversibilities arising in the dissipative flows of weakly conducting fluids past over a moving Riga plate. In this study, the electro-magneto-hydrodynamic convective flow features of a viscous electrically conducting fluid over a horizontal Riga plate are deliberated comprehensively by considering the wall suction and Joule heating effects. It is assumed that the permanent magnets are of equal width and mounted alternatively on a plane surface. Due to the electromagnetic proprieties of the Riga plate, the exponentially decaying Grinberg term is included in the momentum conservation equation as a resistive drag force in this investigation. The modeled differential equations were non-dimensionalized and simplified mathematically by utilizing suitable dimensionless variables and adopting admissible physical assumptions. Numerical solutions were established herein by utilizing an efficient algorithm based on the generalized differential quadrature method and the Newton–Raphson iterative technique. It is worth concluding that the presence of the wall suction effect enhances noticeably the heat transfer rate and its thermodynamic irreversibility near the Riga plate, while a reverse feature is depicted with the elevating strengths of the magnetization field.

Boundary Layer Theory

Abstract: The boundary layer equations for plane, incompressible, and steady flow are $$\matrix{ {u{{\partial u} \over {\partial x}} + v{{\partial u} \over {\partial y}} = - {1 \over \varrho }{{\partial p} \over {\partial x}} + v{{{\partial ^2}u} \over {\partial {y^2}}},} \cr {0 = {{\partial p} \over {\partial y}},} \cr {{{\partial u} \over {\partial x}} + {{\partial v} \over {\partial y}} = 0.} \cr }$$

Numerical Heat Transfer And Fluid Flow

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A Benchmark Study on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids

Abstract: This article reports on the International Nanofluid Property Benchmark Exercise, or INPBE, in which the thermal conductivity of identical samples of colloidally stable dispersions of nanoparticles or “nanofluids,” was measured by over 30 organizations worldwide, using a variety of experimental approaches, including the transient hot wire method, steady-state methods, and optical methods. The nanofluids tested in the exercise were comprised of aqueous and nonaqueous basefluids, metal and metal oxide particles, near-spherical and elongated particles, at low and high particle concentrations. The data analysis reveals that the data from most organizations lie within a relatively narrow band (±10% or less) about the sample average with only few outliers. The thermal conductivity of the nanofluids was found to increase with particle concentration and aspect ratio, as expected from classical theory. There are (small) systematic differences in the absolute values of the nanofluid thermal conductivity among the various experimental approaches; however, such differences tend to disappear when the data are normalized to the measured thermal conductivity of the basefluid. The effective medium theory developed for dispersed particles by Maxwell in 1881 and recently generalized by Nan et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 81, 6692 (1997)], was found to be in good agreement with the experimental data, suggesting that no anomalous enhancement of thermal conductivity was achieved in the nanofluids tested in this exercise.