Title
Thermodynamic Analysis of Entropy Generation Minimization in Thermally Dissipating Flow Over a Thin Needle Moving in a Parallel Free Stream of Two Newtonian Fluids.
Abstract
This article is devoted to study sustainability of entropy generation in an incompressible thermal flow of Newtonian fluids over a thin needle that is moving in a parallel stream. Two types of Newtonian fluids (water and air) are considered in this work. The energy dissipation term is included in the energy equation. Here, it is presumed that u (the free stream velocity) is in the positive axial direction (x-axis) and the motion of the thin needle is in the opposite or similar direction as the free stream velocity. The reduced self-similar governing equations are solved numerically with the aid of the shooting technique with the fourth-order-Runge-Kutta method. Using similarity transformations, it is possible to obtain the expression for dimensionless form of the volumetric entropy generation rate and the Bejan number. The effects of Prandtl number, Eckert number and dimensionless temperature parameter are discussed graphically in details for water and air taken as Newtonian fluids.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/e21010074
ENTROPY
Keywords
Field
DocType
entropy generation,Bejan number,thin needle,two Newtonian fluids,self-similar equations
Compressibility,Prandtl number,Mathematical optimization,Dissipation,Flow (psychology),Bejan number,Mechanics,Newtonian fluid,Eckert number,Mathematics,Dimensionless quantity
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
1
1099-4300
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ilyas Khan12525.71
Waqar A. Khan201.69
Muhammad Qasim3114.63
Muhammad Idrees Afridi483.47
Sayer O. Alharbi500.68