Laminar Heat Transfer With Viscous Dissipation and Fluid Axial Heat Conduction for Modified Power Law Fluids Flowing in Parallel Plates With One Plate Moving(<Special Issue>Emerging Fields in Thermal Engineering)

Using the fully developed laminar velocity distributions obtained by applying the modified power-law model proposed by Irvine and Karni, the thermal-entrance-region heat transfer of non-Newtonian fluids flowing in parallel plates with one plate moving is investigated taking into account both viscous dissipation and fluid axial heat conduction for two kinds of thermal boundary conditions, namely, constant temperature and constant heat flux at the moving wall. The energy equation subject to a constant temperature at upstream infinity, fully developed temperature profile at downstream infinity and the appropriate thermal boundary conditions at the upper and lower walls is numerically solved by the finite difference method as an elliptic type problem. The effects of the moving plate velocity, rheological properties, Brinkman number and Peclet number on the temperature distribution and Nusselt numbers are discussed for both Newtonian and pseudoplastic fluids