MHD nanofluid flow with energy transfer over a porous stretching surface by using a second-grade fluid model

Abstract

The main attention of this research is to examine the nature of the flow behavior of nanofluids and energy transfers past an expanding sheet with second-grade fluid model. The system is also situated in an absorbent area, which affects the effects of heat and mass transport and chemical reaction. The numerical calculations and visualization for various flow parameters are performed using a finite difference code that is developed in the built-in bvp4c solver scheme of MATLAB. This involves adopting a set of new variables to change the character of the governing equations of this study. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, many authors have contributed to this field, but they do not take into account the above fluid model associated with the energy transfers with the influences of Brownian motion, thermophoresis effect, and chemical reaction parameters, etc., in their study. Major findings of this study is to achieve a higher amount of thermal transference using the physical parameters, such as magnetic, visco-elastic, thermophoresis, and Brownian motion parameters, etc. Also, using smaller values of the magnetic parameter can be an effective way to minimize the impact of drag force of the fluid at the surface. The considering fluid model has multifarious industrial applications, such as food and cosmetic industry and pharmaceutical and biomedical industry, etc., due to its versatile rheological characteristics.

Keywords:

• Heat transfer
• mass transfer
• MHD
• nanofluid
• second-grade fluid
• stretching surface

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