Heat flow through a thin cooled pipe filled with micropolar fluid

In this paper, a non-isothermal flow of a micropolar fluid in a thin pipe with circular cross-section is considered. The fluid in the pipe is cooled by the exterior medium and the heat exchange on the lateral part of the boundary is described by Newton’s cooling condition. Assuming that the hydrodyn...

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Autores: Beneš, Michal, Pažanin, Igor, Suárez Grau, Francisco Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/48623
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/48623
https://doi.org/10.15632/jtam-pl.53.3.569
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Pipe flow
Heat conduction
Micropolar fluid
Asymptotic analysis
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Sumario:In this paper, a non-isothermal flow of a micropolar fluid in a thin pipe with circular cross-section is considered. The fluid in the pipe is cooled by the exterior medium and the heat exchange on the lateral part of the boundary is described by Newton’s cooling condition. Assuming that the hydrodynamic part of the system is provided, we seek for the micropolar effects on the heat flow using the standard perturbation technique. Different asymptotic models are deduced depending on the magnitude of the Reynolds number with respect to the pipe thickness. The critical case is identified and the explicit approximation for the fluid temperature is built improving the known result for the classical Newtonian flow as well. The obtained results are illustrated by some numerical simulations.