Heat transfer assessment for Au-blood nanofluid flow in Darcy-Forchheimer porous medium using induced magnetic field and Cattaneo-Christov model

Abstract

Stagnation point flow defines the fluid motion near the stagnation point of a solid surface and has utilization in the process of polymer extrusion, electronic gadgets cooling, nuclear reactor, etc. Furthermore, the main theme of this work is to analyze the heat transfer characteristics of stagnation point flow of Casson nanofluid over stretching sheet using induced magnetic field and Cattaneo-Christov model. The Casson fluid is a non-Newtonian fluid model; and in the current work the working fluid consists of nanoparticles of Au (Gold) and blood (Casson fluid). In the existing model, temperature of the surface depends on the distance from the stagnation point. Therefore, Darcy-Forchheimer porous model is incorporated. The solution of coupled nonlinear PDEs is obtained by bvp4c. The heat transfer and flow characteristics of Au-blood based Casson nanofluid are discussed graphically. The dual behavior is observed in the profiles of induced magnetic field with increase in the value of reciprocal magnetic Prandtl number, however the velocity outlines of Au-blood nanofluid declined. A comparison is presented with previous article and is found to be in good agreement.

Keywords:

• Casson fluid
• Cattaneo-Christov model
• Darcy-Forchheimer flow
• induced magnetic field
• stagnation point flow

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