Volume 6 Issue 4 August - October 2016
Research Paper
Parametric Study on Skin Friction Coefficient and Wall Shear Stress of Titania/Water Nanofluids Flowing over a Horizontal Flat Plate
Sayantan Mukherjee*, Purna Chandra Mishra**, Himangshu Bhattacharjee***
* Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, St. Mary's Technical Campus Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
** Associate Professor and Dean, School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
*** Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, St. Mary's Technical Campus Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Mukherjee, S., Mishra, P. C., and Bhattacharjee, H. (2016). Parametric Study on Skin Friction Coefficient and Wall Shear Stress of Titania/Water Nanofluids Flowing over a Horizontal Flat Plate. i-manager’s Journal on Mechanical Engineering, 6(4), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.26634/jme.6.4.8290
Abstract
A parametric study of the skin friction coefficient and drag force of Titania/water nanofluid flow over an isothermal flat plate at stationary condition is conducted. With the help of similarity analysis, the governing equations of continuity and momentum are reduced into nonlinear differential equations which are subsequently solved numerically using a shooting method in Engineering Equation Solver (EES) software. The effect of volume fraction on the different flow parameters is evaluated. The numerical results show that density and dynamic viscosity increase with increase in particle volume fraction of nanoparticles. The thickness of hydrodynamic boundary layer reduced with an increase in nanoparticle volume fraction in base fluid. Skin friction coefficient and wall shear stress increase in magnitude with the inclusion of nanoparticles in base fluid but decrease along the direction of flow. The results are displayed graphically and they contribute to understanding the interesting aspects of nanofluids.
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