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Marangoni effects on forced convection of power-law liquids in a thin film over a stretching surface

Chien-Hsin Chen
- 08 Oct 2007 - 
- Vol. 370, Iss: 1, pp 51-57
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In this article, the effect of Marangoni convection on the flow and heat transfer within a power-law liquid film on an unsteady stretching sheet is examined, and the governing equations are non-dimensionalized using suitable transformation variables and the resulting transformed PDEs are then solved numerically by an implicit finite-difference scheme.
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This article is published in Physics Letters A.The article was published on 2007-10-08. It has received 103 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Marangoni number & Marangoni effect.

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MHD pseudo-plastic nanofluid unsteady flow and heat transfer in a finite thin film over stretching surface with internal heat generation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated flow and heat transfer of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) pseudo-plastic nanofluid in a finite film over unsteady stretching surface with internal heating effects.
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Unsteady flow and heat transfer of pseudo-plastic nanoliquid in a finite thin film on a stretching surface with variable thermal conductivity and viscous dissipation

TL;DR: In this paper, a modified Fourier's law of heat conduction for power-law fluids is adopted by assuming that the thermal conductivity is powerlaw-dependent on the velocity gradient.
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Thermocapillarity and magnetic field effects in a thin liquid film on an unsteady stretching surface

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of thermocapillarity and a magnetic field on flow and heat transfer in a liquid film over an unsteady elastic stretching surface is analyzed.
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Particle shape and radiation effects on Marangoni boundary layer flow and heat transfer of copper-water nanofluid driven by an exponential temperature

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the Marangoni boundary layer flow and heat transfer of copper-water nanofluid driven by exponential temperature with radiation effects and found that the solid volume fraction and nanoparticle shape have significant impacts on the thermal conductivity and sphere nanoparticle has better enhancement on heat transfer than other nanoparticle shapes.
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Thin film flow and heat transfer on an unsteady stretching sheet with internal heating

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of internal heat generation on flow and heat transfer in a thin liquid film on an unsteady stretching sheet was studied using the Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM), taking a general surface temperature into consideration.
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Flow past a stretching plate

TL;DR: In this paper, a plastischem material fliesst aus einem Spalt with einer Geschwindigkeit, die proportional zum Abstand vom Spalt ist.
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Liquid film on an unsteady stretching surface

TL;DR: In this article, a similarity transform was used to reduce the Navier-Stokes equations to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation governed by a non-dimensional unsteady parameter.
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Heat transfer in a liquid film on an unsteady stretching surface

TL;DR: In this article, the momentum and heat transfer in a laminar liquid film on a horizontal stretching sheet is analyzed. And the governing time-dependent boundary layer equations are reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations by means of an exact similarity transformation.
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Flow and heat transfer in a viscoelastic fluid over a stretching sheet

TL;DR: In this paper, an exact analytical solution of the non-linear equation governing the self-similar flow is given, and the analysis of heat transfer in this flow reveals that when the wall and the ambient temperature are held constant, temperature at a point increases with increase in k1, for fixed Prandtl number σ.
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Thermocapillarity in a liquid film on an unsteady stretching surface

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of thermocapillarity on the flow and heat transfer in a thin liquid film on a horizontal stretching sheet is analyzed, and the time-dependent governing boundary layer equations for momentum and thermal energy are reduced to a set of coupled ordinary differential equations by means of an exact similarity transformation.
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