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. 2014 Jan 15;9(1):e83153. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083153

Effect of Joule Heating and Thermal Radiation in Flow of Third Grade Fluid over Radiative Surface

Tasawar Hayat 1,2, Anum Shafiq 1,*, Ahmed Alsaedi 2
Editor: Vanesa Magar3
PMCID: PMC3893084  PMID: 24454694

Abstract

This article addresses the boundary layer flow and heat transfer in third grade fluid over an unsteady permeable stretching sheet. The transverse magnetic and electric fields in the momentum equations are considered. Thermal boundary layer equation includes both viscous and Ohmic dissipations. The related nonlinear partial differential system is reduced first into ordinary differential system and then solved for the series solutions. The dependence of velocity and temperature profiles on the various parameters are shown and discussed by sketching graphs. Expressions of skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number are calculated and analyzed. Numerical values of skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number are tabulated and examined. It is observed that both velocity and temperature increases in presence of electric field. Further the temperature is increased due to the radiation parameter. Thermal boundary layer thickness increases by increasing Eckert number.

Introduction

There is a substantial interest of the recent researchers in the flows of non-Newtonian fluids. Such motivation in these fluids is mainly because of their use in the industrial and technological applications. Many materials like mud, pasta, personal care products, ice cream, paints, oils, cheese, asphalt etc. are non-Newtonian fluids. Most biological fluids with higher molecular weight components are also non-Newtonian in nature. The usual properties of polymer melts and solutions together with the desirable attributes of many polymeric solids, have given rise to the world-wide industry of polymer processing. The non-Newtonian fluids in particular have key importance in geophysics, chemical and nuclear industries, material processing, oil reservoir engineering, bioengineering and many others. Rheological properties of all the non-Newtonian fluids cannot be predicted using single constitutive equation (unlike the case of viscous fluids). Therefore many models of non-Newtonian fluids are based either on “natural” modifications of established macroscopic theories or molecular considerations. The additional rheological parameter in the constitutive equations of non-Newtonian fluids are the main culprit for the lack of analytical solutions. The resulting equations are more complex and higher order than the Navier-Stokes equations. Hence these equations have been attracted from modelling as well as solutions point of view. The advancement in the study of non-Newtonian fluids has been made even by the recent investigators (See [1][10] and many studies therein).

The flow induced over a stretching surface is very well documented problem in fluid mechanics. It is encountered in extrusion of polymer sheet from a die, glass fiber and paper production, continuous casting, cooling of metallic plate in a bath etc. Such flow problem in presence of heat transfer has been attracted by the researchers due to its applications in polymer processing technology. The quality of end product in industry depends upon both the stretching and cooling rates. Further, the thermal radiation effect has pivotal role in nuclear plants, gas turbines and devices for satellites, space vehicles, aircraft etc. The literature on this topic is quite sizeable. Rana and Bhargava [11] presented the numerical analysis for heat transfer of nanofluid over a nonlinearly stretching sheet. Bhattacharyya et al. [12] analyzed the solutions of boundary layer flow of viscoelastic fluid and heat transfer over a stretching sheet with internal heat generation or absorption. Makinde and Aziz [13] numerically studied the boundary layer flow of viscous nanofluid bounded by a stretching sheet. They considered the transport equation which includes the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. Mandal and Mukhopadhyay [14] considered the boundary layer flow and heat transfer towards an exponentially stretching porous sheet embedded in a porous medium with variable surface heat flux. They found that the momentum and thermal boundary layer thickness decrease with increasing exponential parameter. Hayat et al. [15] examined the heat transfer in flow of second grade fluid over a stretching sheet. Thermal radiation effect in the boundary layer flow by stretching surface has been explored by Sajid and Hayat [16]. Bhattacharyya [17] discussed the unsteady stagnation point flow towards a stretching surface. Effect of heat transfer in flow over an exponentially stretching surface has been explored by Mukhopadhyay [18]. The radiation effect in flow of micropolar fluid towards a stretching surface is addressed by Hussain et al. [19]. Rashidi et al. [20] developed approximate solutions for heat transfer analysis in flow of micropolar fluid. Moreover, the interest in the study of magnetohydrodynamic flow for an electrically conducting fluid over heated surface is motivated by its great value in a wide range of engineering problems such as plasma studies, petroleum industries, MHD power generators, cooling of nuclear reactors, the boundary layer control in aerodynamics and crystal growth. Hence Turkyilmazoglu [21] found exact solution for magnetohydrodynamic flow of viscous fluid due to a rotating disk. Hayat and Nawaz [22] has investigated the Soret and Dufour effects in mixed convection three dimensional boundary flow of an electrically conducting second grade fluid over a vertical stretching sheet. Ahmad and Nazar [23] considered the problem of unsteady magnetohydrodynamic viscoelastic fluid flowing towards a stagnation point on a vertical surface. Pal and Mondal [24] discussed the hydromagnetic flow of viscous fluid over a stretching surface in presence of both electric and magnetic fields. Abel et al. [25] presented MHD flow analysis for viscoelastic fluid. Both viscous and Ohmic dissipations are presented in this attempt. More, the analysis here is made when magnetic and electric fields are present. Hayat and Qasim [26] considered radiation effect in MHD flow of second grade fluid over unsteady porous stretching surface. The effect of internal heat generation in hydromagnetic non-Darcy flow and heat transfer over a stretching surface with thermal radiation and Ohmic dissipation is examined by Olanrewaju [27]. Elbashbeshy et al. [28] numerically analyzed the problem of unsteady laminar two-dimensional MHD boundary layer flow and heat transfer of an incompressible viscous fluid over a porous surface in the presence of thermal radiation and internal heat generation or absorption. MHD flow caused by a rotating disk is presented by Rashidi et al. [29]. The well-known Jeffery-Hamel problem in presence of magnetic field is examined by Motsa et al. [30]. Most of the studies on MHD flow over a stretching surface with heat transfer do not take into account the effect of electric field and Ohmic dissipation. Very little exists yet about such aspects in the stretched flows of viscous fluids. Such consideration further narrowed down when non-Newtonian fluids have been considered. To our knowledge there is only one such attempt for viscoelastic fluid [25]. The fluid employed although exhibits the normal stress effects but it cannot describe the features of shear thinning or shear thickening. Having such in view, the flow of third grade fluid is considered. This fluid even can capture shear thinning/shear thickening effects for one-dimensional flow over a rigid surface. The main objective here is to analyze the two-dimensional flow of third grade fluid over an unsteady stretching sheet. The effects of both electric and magnetic fields are retained in the momentum and energy equations. Thermal radiation and Ohmic dissipation are taken into account. The solutions for velocity component and temperature are developed by homotopy analysis method (HAM) [31][40]. The plots of physical quantities of interest reflecting the novel features of embedded parameters in the problems are given and analyzed. Tables for skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number are made and explained carefully.

Mathematical Formulation

We examine the two-dimensional boundary layer flow of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) third grade fluid over a porous stretching surface. Here the fluid is electrically conducting in the presence of applied magnetic Inline graphic and electric Inline graphic fields. The flow is because of stretching of sheet from a slit through two equal and opposite forces. The sheet velocity is taken linear parallel to the flow direction. The electric and magnetic fields obey the Ohm's law Inline graphic. Here Inline graphic is the Joule current, Inline graphic is the electrical conductivity and Inline graphic is the fluid velocity. The induced magnetic field and Hall current effects are ignored subject to small magnetic Reynolds number. Both the electric and magnetic fields contribute into the momentum and thermal boundary layer equations. The relevant equations in the aforestated conditions can be expressed as follows:

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In above equations Inline graphic and Inline graphic denote the velocity components in the Inline graphic and Inline graphic directions, Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic are the fluid parameters, Inline graphic is the kinematic viscosity, Inline graphic is the density of fluid, Inline graphic is the fluid temperature, Inline graphic is the thermal conductivity of fluid, Inline graphic is the specific heat at constant pressure and the radiative heat flux Inline graphic is first given by Sparrow and Cess [41] and Raptis [42]

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where Inline graphic is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant and Inline graphic is the mean absorption coefficient. Through expansion of Inline graphic, Eq. (3) becomes

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The subjected conditions can be mentioned as follows:

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with Inline graphic defined by

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Here the mass transfer at surface with Inline graphic is for injection and Inline graphic for suction. Also the stretching velocity Inline graphic and the surface temperature Inline graphic are taken in the forms:

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where Inline graphic and Inline graphic are the constants with Inline graphic and Inline graphic (i.e Inline graphic).

If Inline graphic is the stream function then defining

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The incompressibility condition is identically satisfied and the resulting problems for Inline graphic and Inline graphic are reduced into the following forms

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with

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Here Inline graphic denotes the Reynolds number, Inline graphic the magnetic parameter, Inline graphic is the electric parameter, Inline graphic and Inline graphic and Inline graphic are the fluid parameters, Inline graphic is the suction parameter, Inline graphic is the unsteadiness parameter, Inline graphic is the radiation parameter, Inline graphic is the Prandtl number and Inline graphic is the Eckert number.

The local skin friction coefficient is defined as

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The Nusselt number is given by

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in which Inline graphic is the local Reynolds number.

Solutions

The velocity and temperature can be expressed in the set of base functions

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can be expressed as follows

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where Inline graphic and Inline graphic are the coefficients.

The initial guesses Inline graphic and Inline graphic in homotopy solutions are taken through the expressions

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The auxiliary linear operators and their associated properties are

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satisfy the following properties

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Where Inline graphic depict the arbitrary constants.

The zeroth order problems are

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with non-linear operators Inline graphic and Inline graphic defined by

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in which Inline graphic indicates the embedding parameter and Inline graphic and Inline graphic the nonzero auxiliary parameters.

Setting Inline graphic and Inline graphic we have

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When Inline graphic increases from 0 to 1, Inline graphic and Inline graphic deforms from the initial solutions Inline graphic and Inline graphic to the final solutions Inline graphic and Inline graphic, respectively. Taylor series, of Inline graphic and Inline graphic gives

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The auxiliary parameters are properly chosen such that the series solutions converge at Inline graphic. Therefore

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The Inline graphicth-order deformation problems are

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The general solutions of the Eqs. (31)(32) are

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in which Inline graphic and Inline graphic denote the special solutions.

Convergence of the Derived Solutions

We note that the series solutions (33) and (34) contain the non-zero auxiliary parameters Inline graphic and Inline graphic. These parameters are useful in adjusting and controlling the convergence. The Inline graphic and Inline graphiccurves are plotted for 10th order of approximation in Fig. 1 for the suitable ranges of the auxiliary parameters. Here the suitable values for Inline graphic and Inline graphic are Inline graphic, Inline graphic Furthermore, convergence of series solution is checked and shown in Table 1. Note that the series solutions converge at 26th order of approximation up to 6 decimal places.

Figure 1. ħ-curves of the functions f″(0) and θ′(0) at 10th order of approximation.

Figure 1

Table 1. Convergence of homotopy solutions when Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic.

Order of approximation Inline graphic Inline graphic
1 1.0419 1.0059
2 1.0720 1.0079
5 1.1210 1.0041
10 1.1442 0.99450
12 1.1458 0.99211
14 1.1458 0.99051
40 1.1458 0.99051

Results and Discussion

This section illustrates the impact of physical parameters. The results are displayed graphically in the Figs. 220. The conclusions for flow field and other physical quantities of interest are drawn. The numerical values of the skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number are presented in the Tables 2 and 3 for various values of Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic. Fig. 2 displays the effect of Hartman number Inline graphic on velocity profile by keeping other physical parameter fixed. It is of interest to note that the velocity profile decreases with an increase in Inline graphic whereas the boundary layer thickness reduces. Clearly by increasing magnetic force, the Lorentz force increases which cause resistance in the fluid flow and consequently the velocity profile decreases. Fig. 3 shows the influence of third grade parameter Inline graphic on the velocity profile Inline graphic. Here we noticed that the velocity increases near the wall with an increased Inline graphic whereas it vanishes away from the wall. Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the variation of second grade parameters Inline graphic and Inline graphic on the velocity profile Inline graphic respectively. It is observed that the velocity profile Inline graphic is an increasing function of Inline graphic. The velocity profile also increases when Inline graphic is increased. Fig. 6 is plotted for the effects of the suction parameter Inline graphic on the velocity profile Inline graphic. The velocity profile decreases by increasing parameter Inline graphic and further the boundary layer is also decreasing function of Inline graphic. Fig. 7 is sketched for the influence of unsteadiness parameter Inline graphic on the velocity profile. The velocity profile and the thermal boundary layer decreases for larger values of Inline graphic. The behavior of Reynolds number Inline graphic on velocity profile is shown in Fig. 8. It is observed that the velocity profile decreases with an increase in Reynold number Inline graphic. The influence of electric parameter Inline graphic is shown in Fig. 9. This Fig explains that as the electric parameter Inline graphic increases, the velocity boundary layer increases near the plate with small rate but increases away from the stretching plate more rapidly. In fact the Lorentz force (arising due to the electric field acts like an accelerating force) reduces the frictional resistance which causes to shift the stream line away from the stretching sheet. Fig. 10 portrays the effects of magnetic parameter Inline graphic on the temperature profile Inline graphic. It is depicted that temperature profile and thermal boundary layer thickness increase with an increase in magnetic parameter. Fig. 11 is the plot of temperature profile Inline graphic for various values of third grade parameter Inline graphic. The effect of third grade parameter Inline graphic on Inline graphic shows a decrease near the wall. The boundary layer thickness also decreases. Figs. 12 and 13 describe the effects of second grade parameters Inline graphic and Inline graphic on temperature profile Inline graphic. Fig. 12. depicts that the effect of second grade parameter Inline graphic is to reduce the temperature distribution in the boundary layer which results in thinning of the boundary layer thickness. Same behavior is shown in Fig. 13 for various values of Inline graphic. The influence of suction parameter Inline graphic and unsteadiness parameter Inline graphic are analyzed in the Figs. 14 and 15. Here the temperature profile decreases with the increase of unsteadiness parameter Inline graphic and the suction parameter Inline graphic. Further the thermal boundary layer also decreases by increasing both the unsteadiness parameter Inline graphic and the suction parameter Inline graphic. Fig. 16 shows that the temperature profile and thermal boundary layer is decreasing function of Reynold number Inline graphic. The effects of thermal radiation parameter Inline graphic on temperature is shown in Fig. 17. It is revealed that the radiation parameter Inline graphic causes increase in the fluid temperature Inline graphic. On the other hand the thermal boundary layer thickness also increases. In Fig. 18 the influence of electric parameter Inline graphic on temperature profile is given. This Fig. depicts that the temperature profile and the boundary layer thickness increase with an increase of electric parameter Inline graphic. Fig. 19. illustrates the effects of Prandtl number Inline graphic on the temperature profile Inline graphic. Both the temperature and thermal boundary layer thickness are decreased by increasing Inline graphic. We displayed the temperature field for various values of Eckert number Inline graphic in Fig. 20. The effect of Eckert number is to increase the temperature boundary layer thickness due to the frictional heating. Fig. 21 shows the effects of Hartman number Inline graphic on velocity Inline graphic and shear stress Inline graphic. With the increase in Inline graphic, the velocity field Inline graphic decreases near the wall and vanishes far away from the wall while shear stress Inline graphic has same behavior for larger values of Hartman number Inline graphic. An opposite behavior is noted when Inline graphic. Fig. 22 demonstrates the effects of electric parameter Inline graphic on velocity Inline graphic and shear stress Inline graphic. It is worthmentioning to point out that velocity is increasing function of electric parameter Inline graphic near the wall whereas opposite behavior for shear stress is observed for Inline graphic. The numerical values of skin friction coefficient for various physical parameters are shown in Table 2. Here the magnitude of skin friction coefficient increases with the increase of second grade parameters (Inline graphic, Inline graphic), third grade parameter Inline graphic, unsteadiness parameter Inline graphic, Hartman number Inline graphic and Reynold number Inline graphic whereas it decreases with an increase in electric parameter Inline graphic. Table 3 shows the effect of physical parameters on heat transfer characteristics at the wall Inline graphic. From this table, we observe that for large values of second grade parameters (Inline graphic, Inline graphic), third grade parameter Inline graphic, unsteadiness parameter Inline graphic, radiation parameter Inline graphic and Prandtl number Inline graphic the heat transfer coefficient at the wall Inline graphic increases while it decreases for Hartman number Inline graphic, Reynold number Inline graphic, electric parameter E1 and Eckert number Inline graphic.

Figure 2. Influence of M on f′(η).

Figure 2

Figure 20. Influence of Ec on θ(η).

Figure 20

Table 2. Numerical values of skin friction coefficients Inline graphic for different values of physical parameters.

Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic
0.00 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 1.453
0.10 1.532
0.14 1.567
0.1 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 1.600
0.1 1.632
0.2 1.668
0.1 0.1 0.0 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 1.433
0.1 1.489
0.2 1.532
0.1 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 1.532
0.6 1.592
0.7 1.670
0.1 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 1.532
0.2 1.536
0.3 1.545
0.01 0.01 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.5 0.7 1.492
0.6 1.487
0.7 1.482
0.1 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 1.532
0.8 1.542
0.9 1.551

Table 3. Numerical values of Nusselt number Inline graphic for different values of physical parameters.

Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic Inline graphic
0.0 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.3 1.0 0.5 1.668
0.1 1.689
0.2 1.706
0.1 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.3 1.0 0.5 1.660
0.1 1.674
0.2 1.689
0.1 0.2 0.0 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.3 1.0 0.5 1.683
0.3 1.691
0.4 1.731
0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.3 1.0 0.5 1.689
0.6 1.805
0.7 1.920
0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.3 1.0 0.5 1.689
0.5 1.669
0.8 1.638
0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.5 1.0 0.7 0.3 1.0 0.5 1.938
1.5 1.889
2.0 1.780
0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.3 1.0 0.5 1.689
1.0 1.668
1.5 1.652
0.1 0.2 0.2 0.7 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.3 1.0 0.5 1.920
0.4 1.991
0.5 2.060
0.1 0.2 0.2 0.7 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.4 1.0 0.5 1.991
1.1 2.109
1.2 2.223
0.1 0.2 0.2 0.7 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.4 1.0 0.5 1.991
0.6 1.938
0.7 1.886

Figure 3. Influence of β on f′(η).

Figure 3

Figure 4. Influence of α1 on f′(η).

Figure 4

Figure 5. Influence of α2 on f′(η).

Figure 5

Figure 6. Influence of A on f′(η).

Figure 6

Figure 7. Influence of S on f′(η).

Figure 7

Figure 8. Influence of Re on f′(η).

Figure 8

Figure 9. Influence of E1 on f′(η).

Figure 9

Figure 10. Influence of M on θ(η).

Figure 10

Figure 11. Influence of β on θ(η).

Figure 11

Figure 12. Influence of α1 on θ(η).

Figure 12

Figure 13. Influence of α2 on θ(η).

Figure 13

Figure 14. Influence of A on θ(η).

Figure 14

Figure 15. Influence of S on θ(η).

Figure 15

Figure 16. Influence of Re on θ(η).

Figure 16

Figure 17. Influence of Rd on θ(η).

Figure 17

Figure 18. Influence of E1 on θ(η).

Figure 18

Figure 19. Influence of Pr on θ(η).

Figure 19

Figure 21. Variation of velocity f′(η) and shear stress f″(η) with η for several values of Hartman number M.

Figure 21

Figure 22. Variation of velocity f′(η) and shear stress f″(η) with η for several values of electric parameter E1.

Figure 22

Concluding remarks

The flow of third grade fluid and heat transfer in the presence of thermal radiation and Ohmic dissipation are examined. The graphs are prepared to study the influence of the pertinent flow parameters including the second grade parameter (Inline graphic, Inline graphic), third grade parameter Inline graphic, unsteadiness parameter Inline graphic, magnetic parameter Inline graphic, electric field parameter Inline graphic, Reynolds number Inline graphic, radiation parameter Inline graphic, Prandtl number Inline graphic and Eckert number Inline graphic. The following observations hold:

  • The effect of third grade parameter Inline graphic is to increase the boundary layer thickness.

  • The maximum velocity is attained for higher values of electric parameter Inline graphic.

  • Effect of suction parameter, unsteadiness parameter and Reynolds number on boundary layer thickness is similar in a qualitative sense.

  • Effects of Inline graphic and Inline graphic on temperature profile are quite opposite.

  • The velocity field Inline graphic is decreasing function of Hartman number Inline graphic.

  • Magnitude of skin friction coefficient Inline graphic is increasing function of Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic.

  • Electric parameter Inline graphic decreases the magnitude of skin friction coefficient.

Funding Statement

This paper was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah under grant no. (10-130/1433 HiCi). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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