简介：Lid-drivenmixedconvectionhasbeengivenimmenseimportanceduetoitswiderangeofapplications.AT-shapedcavityisintroducedandpertinentparameterscontrollingmixedconvectionphenomenonareanalyzedinthispaper.Water-Al2O3nanofluidisconsideredinsidethecavitytoaugmentheattransferrate.Galerkinweightedresidualmethodoffiniteelementanalysisisappliedforthenumericalsimulations.Numericalsolutionisobtainedfordifferentsolidvolumefractionsofnanofluid(?=0-0.15),Grashofnumbers(Gr=0.1?5000)andReynoldsnumbers(Re=0.31?1000)inlaminarflowregime.Specialattentionisgivenontheanalysisofflowatthepuremixedconvectionregime.ItisfoundthatGrashof,ReynoldsandRichardsonnumbersalongwithsolidvolumefractionofnanofluidhavesignificanteffectonheattransfercharacteristicsinsidethecavity.ResultsarepresentedusingstreamlineandisothermcontoursalongwithrelatedvariationofaverageNusseltnumbersoftheheatedwallandaveragefluidtemperatureinsidethecavity.

简介：ThesedimentationofcircularparticlesinaverticalchannelfilledwithOldroyd-BfluidwasstudiedbyanimprovedDistributedLagrangeMultiplier/fictitiousdomain(DLM)method.Thesedimentingbehaviorsoftwoparticlesarepresentedfirstly,whichshowsthat,whentheparticlesaredroppedinaviscoealsticfluid,thestableconfigurationistheonewheretheparticlesarealignedparalleltotheflowdirectionwhentheMachnumberMislessthan1andtheelasticitynumberEisgreaterthan1.ThisagreeswellwiththeknownexperimentalinRef.[1]andsimulationresultsinRef.[2].Oursimulationsalsoshowthat,asinNewtonianfluid,thesedimentationoftheparticleswillbeacceleratedduetotheinteractionbetweenparticlesinaviscoealsticfluid.

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