• Title/Summary/Keyword: Convection-diffusion problem

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Dynamic response of heat and mass transfer in blood flow through stenosed bifurcated arteries

  • Charkravarty S.;Sen S.
    • Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.47-62
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    • 2005
  • The present study deals with a mathematical model describing the dynamic response of heat and mass transfer in blood flow through bifurcated arteries under stenotic condition. The geometry of the bifurcated arterial segment possessing constrictions in both the parent and the daughter arterial lumen frequently appearing in the diseased arteries causing malfunction of the cardiovascular system, is formulated mathematically with the introduction of the suitable curvatures at the lateral junction and the flow divider. The blood flowing through the artery is treated to be Newtonian. The nonlinear unsteady flow phenomena is governed by the Navier-Stokes equations while those of heat and mass transfer are controlled by the heat conduction and the convection-diffusion equations respectively. All these equations together with the appropriate boundary conditions describing the present biomechanical problem following the radial coordinate transformation are solved numerically by adopting finite difference technique. The respective profiles of the flow field, the temperature and the concentration and their distributions as well are obtained. The influences of the stenosis, the arterial wall motion and the unsteady behaviour of the system in terms of the heat and mass transfer on the blood stream in the entire arterial segment are high­lighted through several plots presented at the end of the paper in order to illustrate the applicability of the present model under study.

Double-diffusive convection affected by conductive and insulating side walls during physical vapor transport of Hg2Br2

  • Kim, Geug Tae;Kwon, Moo Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.117-122
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    • 2020
  • In last few decades, although thermal and/or solutal buoyancy-driven recirculating flows in a closed ampoule have been intensively studies as a model problem, there exist interesting total molar flux of Hg2Br2 that have been unreported in the literature. It is concluded that the total molar flux of Hg2Br2(A) increases linearly and directly as the temperature difference regions in the range of 10℃ ≤ ΔT ≤ 50°, 3.5 × 103 ≤ Grt ≤ 4.08 × 103, 4.94 × 104 ≤ Grs ≤ 6.87 × 104. For the range of 10 Torr ≤ PB ≤ 150 Torr, the total molar flux of Hg2Br2(A) decays second order exponentially as the partial pressure of component B (argon as an impurity), PB increases. From the view point of energy transport, the fewer the partial pressure of component B (argon), PB is, the more the energy transport is achieved.