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The intention of this article is to explore the radiation effects of MHD free convective heat transmission past an oscillating hot perpendicular surface in porous medium. The fluid is understood to be viscous, incompressible and the flow is considered as time dependent. Since the paper has aim to study MHD flow problem, the fluid should be electrically conducting. The problem has been modelled mathematically by system of PDEs. The systems of PDEs are worked out by adopting Laplace transform method. In this paper, a closed form of solution have been obtained. The results for the velocity, temperature, Nusselt number and skin-friction have been determined. The given graphs and tables deal with the flow characteristics with reference to the effects of magnetic parameter, Prandtl number, Grashof number, permeability, heat source/sink parameter and radiation parameter. The results show that the proposed method can effectively predict these values with accuracy and may be valuable in many engineering applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smartflower (sunflower) is a compact energy generating system, it consists of a base structure, that houses a foldable array of solar cells that are deployed upon use and is able to track the movement of the sun along the hemisphere. The smart sunflower system's panels differ significantly from the traditional PV panels. In this paper, the thermal behavior analysis of the smart sunflower solar PV panels system is proposed using ANSYS-2020 R2 steady-state thermal analysis. This analysis was applied for the computation of the PV panel temperature distribution which was subjected to various atmospheric conditions. Existing formulations in the available literature are taken into account and, are based on NOCT conditions for several wind speeds and solar irradiance. The performance of the PV sunflower panel is compared with the usual solar panels at the same rated power. The proposed analysis is also used to consider the effect of panel shape and the role of thermal inertia in the performance of the PV panels. Results showed that the sunflower thermal performance is improved in comparison with the usual panels for the same rated power and ambient conditions due to improvement in the thermal characteristics of the sunflower panel such as heat convection coefficient. This study of the sunflower performance stimulates to direct the design to the manufacturing processes and experimentally test the sunflower performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The experimental process carried out in this paper is to determine the convection heat transfer coefficient, overall heat transfer coefficient, and nanofluid heat transfer rate based on DWCNT (double-wall carbon nanotube) nanotubes applied to a shell and tube heat exchanger. The advantage of using DWCNT nanoparticles is the high thermal conductivity value. The volume fractions of nanoparticles were 0.1%, 0.3%, and 0.5% with the addition of PVP surfactant. Experimental tests were conducted to determine the heat transfer performance applied to a shell and tube type heat exchanger with upright baffles. This study aims to improve the heat transfer performance by utilizing nanofluids based on DWCNTs nanoparticles. As a result, using DWCNT nanofluids instead of base fluids increases the convective heat transfer coefficient values and overall heat transfer. The increase in the volume fraction of DWCNTs nanoparticles is also accompanied by an increase in the heat generated. The highest thermal conductivity was obtained by adding 0.5% volume of DWCNTs nanoparticles, which was 0.640 W/m.K. The highest heat transfer rate was produced by adding 0.5% volume fraction and 0.02% PVP with a result value of 70.191 W. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies the scientific investigation of heat convection and mass transmission of flow past through exponentially expedite parabolic motion effects over a upright plate through cross diffusion and taking an account of the soret and dufourimpacts. The fluid past a dramatically quickened boundless isothermal plate is vertical in the presence of time, flexible heat and mass are elevated linearly has been considered. Utilizing explicit finite difference technique, the undimensioned principal equations are explained graphically through the profiles of velocity,temperature and concentration for pertinent measures of skin-friction, Sherwood number and Nusselt number. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]