Analysis of magnetohydrodynamics peristaltic transport of hydrogen bubble in water

摘要

This paper established the theoretical and analytical analysis of a unidirectional laminar bubbly two-phase flow in a symmetric channel with flexible wall. The two-phase model uses water as base fluid with hydrogen bubble suspended in it. Rayleigh-Plesset equation in term of volume fraction is used to model void produce due to presence of hydrogen. The flow is driven by symmetric peristaltic movement of the wall. A uniform magnetic field in the transverse direction to peristaltic motion is applied. Homotopy perturbation Method (HPM) is utilized to formulate the series solution, after simplifying the differential governing equations under the influence of long wave length and low Reynolds number. The volume of the void and radius of the bubble is analyzed graphically. The consequence demonstrates that the void fraction bubbles rapidly approaches to unity, which is due to quasi-statically unstable. Due to Lorentz force fluid velocity suppresses by increasing the transverse magnetic field while reverse performance is noted for Weber number and power law index. (C) 2017 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.