Second Law Analysis for a Variable Viscosity Reactive Couette Flow under Arrhenius Kinetics

N. S. Kobo and O. D. Makinde

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2010, vol. 2010, 1-15

Abstract:

This study investigates the inherent irreversibility associated with the Couette flow of a reacting variable viscosity combustible material under Arrhenius kinetics. The nonlinear equations of momentum and energy governing the flow system are solved both analytically using a perturbation method and numerically using the standard Newton Raphson shooting method along with a fourth-order Runge Kutta integration algorithm to obtain the velocity and temperature distributions which essentially expedite to obtain expressions for volumetric entropy generation numbers, irreversibility distribution ratio, and the Bejan number in the flow field.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1155/2010/278104

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