Activation of energy in MHD Casson nanofluid flow through a porous medium in the presence of convective boundary conditions and suction/injection

Abstract

Casson fluids are used to understand the rheological characteristics of pigment-oil suspensions, polymeric gels, emulsions, heavy oil, etc. Hence in this article, numerical work is carried out to investigate a steady MHD flow of a Casson nanofluid with the Cattaneo-Christov model over a stretching sheet in the presence of a porous medium with heat generation, and suction/injection. The effects of activation energy and chemical reactions are also considered. The concept of MHD is significant because of its numerous applications, including power generators, cooling process, sensors, and magnetic drug targeting. The governing equations of the model are reduced to a system of nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equations by appropriate transformations and are solved numerically via the bvp5c MATLAB package. The effects of the pertinent parameters on the velocity, temperature, and fluid concentration fields along with the skin friction, heat, and mass transfer rates are discussed in detail through figures and tables. It is reported that the velocity field decreases with an escalation in the magnetic field, porosity, and suction. However, the heat transfer rate enhances due an enhancement in suction and the Biot number, whereas it declines with the increasing values of the Brownian motion, thermophoresis, heat generation and thermal relaxation parameters. Furthermore, activation energy increases the fluid concentration.

Keywords:

• Activation energy
• casson Cattaneo-Christov model
• chemical reaction
• magnetohydrodynamics
• nanofluid flow
• porous medium
• suction/injection

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