Thermal Analysis of Radiative Darcy–Forchheimer Nanofluid Flow Across an Inclined Stretching Surface

Autor: Jifeng Cui, Ahmed Jan, Umer Farooq, Muzamil Hussain, Waseem Asghar Khan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nanomaterials, Vol 12, Iss 23, p 4291 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2079-4991
DOI: 10.3390/nano12234291
Popis: Nanofluids have unique features that make them potentially valuable in a variety of medicinal, technical, and industrial sectors. The widespread applications of nanotechnology in modern science have prompted researchers to study nanofluid models from different perspectives. The objective of the current research is to study the flow of non-Newtonian nanofluid over an inclined stretching surface immersed in porous media by employing the Darcy–Forchheimer model. Both titanium oxide (TiO2) and aluminum oxide (Al2O3) are nanoparticles which can be found in blood (based fluid). The consequences of viscous dissipation, thermal radiations, and heat generation are also incorporated. Boundary layer approximations are employed to model the governing system of partial differential equations (PDEs). The governing PDEs with their associated boundary conditions are further altered to a dimensionless form by employing appropriate transformations. The results of the transformed model are collected using local non-similarity approach up to the second level of truncation in association with the built-in finite difference code in MATLAB (bvp4c). Additionally, the impacts of emerging factors on the fluid flow and thermal transport features of the considered flow problem are displayed and analyzed in graphical forms after achieving good agreement between accomplished computational results and published ones. Numerical variations in drag coefficient and Nusselt number are elaborated through the tables. It has been perceived that the enhancement in Casson fluid parameter diminishes the velocity profile. Moreover, it is noted that the porosity parameter and Lorentz’s forces reinforce the resulting frictional factor at the inclined stretching surface.
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