An optimal analysis for magnetohydrodynamics Darcy-Forchheimer boundary layer radiative flow past a porous medium
Funding information: Center of Excellence in Theoretical and Computational Science
Abstract
In this article, the study of magnetohydrodynamics Darcy-Forchheimer flow is carried out. Viscous dissipation and thermal radiation are also deliberated for the flow system over a stretching and porous surface. Buongiorno model has been utilized to elaborate thermophoresis and Brownian dispersion impacts. The physical quantities such as viscosity, density, and specific heat play a key role in liquid flow behavior. The modeled equations are transformed to nonlinear ordinary differential equations and then solved by semi-analytical technique HAM. It is found in this assessment that expanding estimations of the magnetic parameter builds Lorentz force and henceforth decreases the velocity profile. Moreover, velocity is also a reducing function of porosity and inertial parameters. The temperature of nanofluid diminishes with enhancement in the Prandtl number and porosity parameter while it increases with Brownian motion, radiation, thermophoretic parameters, and Brinkman number. The concentration profile is a growing function of the thermophoretic parameter and a reducing function of the Brownian motion parameter and Lewis number.
1 INTRODUCTION
The researchers at current are concerned in analyzing the liquid flow through a permeable medium which has been broadly applied in assembling and technological processes. This area has attained a significant concentration of current researchers since it has been established very common in several applications of present technology like geothermal energy utilization, nuclear-based repositories, porous bearings, fermentation processes, heat exchangers, insulation of gas cooled reactors, crude oil production, ground water pollution, recovery systems, and so on. Porous surface is a continuous solid surface full of void or pores such as rocks (limestone), sandstone, cloth sponge, rye bread, foamed plastic, catalyst pellets and gall bladder with stones, and so on. The porosity is the fraction of pore spaces to the total volume of the surface. Nature is full of porous media, many of them are manmade. There are many applications of a porous medium in engineering and industry such as seepage of water in river beds, mass and heat transfer in packed bed reactor and drying of permeable materials in the textile industry, and so on. Since by Darcy Law, flow is dependent linearly upon gravitational force and pressure gradient. When the medium is closed packed (low permeability) then this law provides a motion equation for Newtonian fluids in porous surface with low Reynolds number. But whenever pores in the medium are large with low distribution then the porous medium will have large voids in it that result in viscous shear in adding to Darcy opposition. The Forchheimer term was included by Muskat1 afterward. Pal and Mondal2 discussed the Darcy-Forchheimer model past a permeable surface with fickle viscosity. In this study, the authors highlighted that the concentration distribution of nanoparticles reduces with an augmentation of the electric field parameter. Ganesh et al3 investigated Dracy-Forchheimer flow for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) nanoparticles over stretching/shrinking medium by using second-order slip. Hayat et al4 investigated Drachy-Forchceimer flow by using Cattaneo-Christo heat flux.
Muhammad et al5 investigated the Darcy-Forchheimer model in the revised form for a Maxwell nanofluid subjected to convective boundary conditions. As the main outcome of their study, they highlighted that temperature and concentration of nanoparticles upsurge with an augmentation in the porosity factor. Vaidyanathan et al6 investigated Soret driven Ferro thermohaline convective flow in the present as well the absence of a porous surface. Kim7 discussed stability analysis on the onset of Soret driven motion for suspended nanoparticles. Hemalatha8, 9 studied rotation effect on Soret driven Ferro thermohaline convective motion of dust particles in the presence and absence of porous sheet. Rosenswig10 discussed the viscosity of fluid flow using a magnetic field. Rudraiah et al11 discussed the MHD convective flow of fluid using heat generation. They analyze this discussion numerically by considering various isothermal boundary combinations. Shivakumara et al11 investigated onset convection flow for the sparsely packed porous surface. Jawad et al12-14 carried out an extensive study for various types of flow in a permeable medium. Gul et al15 have defined the stream of the two sorts of nanoliquids, GO-W and GO-EG, which were examined for the intensification of heat. Numerical and hypothetical studies were approved under the result of Marangoni convection. Hayat et al16 have designated Darcy-Forchheimer flow of magnetohydrodynamic Jeffrey nanoliquid confined by non-linear extending area with movable viscosity. Heat transmission is considered with melting heat and heat absorption/generation.
Kausar et al17 discussed boundary layer flow for Darcy-Brinkman porous surface by considering slip effects and porous dissipation. Madhu et al18 examined the MHD boundary layer movement with heat transmission using a Siskonanofluid model over a stretched sheet with thermal radiations. Recently, due to sharp development in the modern industry, scientists and researchers are provoked to search such techniques and methods that are used for enhancement of heat transmission in heat exchanger equipment. To fulfill these requirements, scientists and researchers developed a new type of fluid named nanofluid and are used for commercial and industrial applications. This type of fluid is prepared by suspending nanoparticles in some base fluid. Experiments have shown that a combination of nanoparticles with base fluid enhances the coefficient of heat transmission of nanofluids. Applications of such fluids are one of the innovative heat transmission enhancements with great efficacy as studied and discussed by the researchers.19-22 Khanafer and Vafai carried out a critical synthesis for the thermophysical characteristics of nanofluids. Mital23 analyzed analytically the transmission of heat and pumping of power of nanofluid by introducing microchannel fluid flow. Hung et al24 investigated heat transmission for micro-channel heat sinks by applying various types of nanoliquids.
Akbari et al25 discussed laminar flow and heat transmission for water and aluminum oxide (Al2O3) nanoliquid. In this study, the authors have used different nanoparticles volume fractions in a 3-D micro-channel of rectangular shaped. They also investigated an enhancement in heat transfer by using rough surfaces in the channel. Behnampour et al26examined a statistical study for heat transmission and nanofluid flow in micro channels by using various shaped ribs such as triangle, rectangle, and trapezoidal. In this study, the authors highlighted that the triangular-shaped rib has the finest thermal enactment assessment criteria estimations, while the rectangular shaped rib creates the record variations in streamlines with small heat transmission estimations. Gravandyan et al27 discussed numerical simulation for laminar heat transmission of nanofluid flow by using a 2-D rectangular shaped micro-channel. In this study, the authors used water/TiO2 nanofluid as a working fluid and observed that increasing nanoparticles (TiO2) results in augmentation of heat transmission, performance evaluation criteria, and pressure drop. They also highlighted in this study that the volume fraction of nanoparticles (TiO2) affected the friction factor.
MHD is the investigation of the elements of such liquids which are electrically led, for example, Fluid Metals, Plasmas, and Electrolytes, and so on. It was presented first by Alfven.28 Ishak et al29 supported a numerical exploration for MHD flow of liquid with heat transmission past a stretched cylinder. In this study, the authors solved the modeled equations numerically by using Keller-box-method. Hayat et al30 talked about the entropy age of the MHD stream for nanoparticles past a non-straight extended medium. In this examination, they researched nano-concentration and heat by compelling utilizing the Brownian movement alongside thermophoresis impact. They additionally settled that stream is unequivocally limited by the magnetic impact. Farooq et al31 talked about MHD flow for Maxwell liquid utilizing nanoparticles past an extended surface. Kumar et al32 depicted the MHD and synthetically responding impacts of 3-D non-Newtonian liquid flow past a permeable material. Lahmar et al33 have considered the variable thermal conductivity and the presence of tending magnetic field effects on heat transmission and liquid flow of squeezing unsteady nanoliquid flow. The accentuations on the three-dimensional Casson nanofluid flow over a slender sheet in permeable layers by considering the thermophoresis and Brownian movement impact was discussed by Durgaprasad et al.34 Ganga et al35 planned the effect of heat generation/absorption on MHD nanoliquid boundary layer flow of a nanofluid over a vertical plate used the Buongiorno model.
The novelty of the current examination is to analyze additionally the thermal radiation impact on Darcy-Brinkman porous medium. Also, we analyze additionally the impact of MHD on the flow. In extra we also incorporate the influence of Forchheimer characteristic past an extending permeable sheet. The viscous dissipation influence is also kept in mind during work. The modeled equations are changed to a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and are then solved by utilizing the semi-analytical technique HAM.
2 MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
Consider 2-D thermally conducted nanofluid flow on an extending sheet. Assume the surface is porous and nanofluid past this surface flow under the influences of thermal radiation and viscous dispersal is also concomitant in this flow. The lines of radiation are orthogonal to the flow path of the fluid. Also we applied the magnetic field whose lines are parallel to the radiation direction. The impact of Brownian and thermophoretic are also concomitant during the flow. Two forces, equal in magnitude and reverse in direction are applied to the flow system in order to widen the sheet in direction of x - axis that also keeps origin as fixed and produces a stretching velocity U = αx along x-axis. Temperature and concentration at the surface of the sheet are Tw, Cw separately whileT∞, C∞ are temperature and concentration respectively the free stream (Figure 1).

In the above Equations (10)–(12) some parameters are involved which are further described as Magnetic parameter, Prandtl number, is radiation parameter, is the Brownian motion constraint, is Lewis number, is thermophoresis parameter and is the inertial parameter, is porosity parameter, is Brinkman viscosity number, and is Eckert number.
3 SOLUTION METHOD
4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
We transform the modeled partial differential equations to ODEs by choosing some suitable transformation for some reasons one is to make the problem solution comfortable and one is to generate some physical parameters in the equation, Due to these generated physical parameters in the ODEs we easily analyze the flow of the fluid in the assumed geometry. In order to overcome such problems one need to use a suitable method. HAM is one of such technique to determine solution for such kind of problems. For this purpose mathematica software is used. In our problem the generated physical parameters are inertial parameter F1, magnetic field parameter M, Brinkman viscosity number γ, porosity parameter k1, thermophoresis factor Nt, Brownian number Nb, radiation parameter Rd, Eckert number Ec, and Prandtl number Pr. Now in the preceding section we are moving to deliberate the effect of these said factors on the dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration distributions of the nanofluid flow. In more we also discuss the effect of the physical factors on the Nusselt number and skin fraction through Table 4.
4.1 Velocity profile
From Figure 2 we observed that velocity is a falling role of magnetic parameter. As a matter of fact, with increase in the magnetic field, the Lorentz force additionally hops up that demonstrations inverse way to flow of liquid which eventually decreases the movement of the flow. Thus escalating values of the magnetic factor decreases the velocity distribution. Figure 3 depicts the influence of inertial parameter upon velocity distribution. It is observed that incremental jumps in the estimations of F1 decays velocity distribution. Physically the increase in inertial parameter (i.e., Forchheimer parameter) means there is an increase in pore gap of the medium (or larger pores sizes). This physical phenomenon increases the viscous intervention and ultimately causes a resistance in the flow path. Moreover, there is a negligible impact of F1 on free stream velocity distribution as displayed in Figure 3. The impact of porosity factor k1 upon velocity profile can be observed in Figure 4. Along these lines, the thickness of the momentum's limit layer is decreased, and less volume from the nanoliquid is fluxed. The reason behind the physical marvel is the pores of a permeable material that decays the velocities. We see from this figure that there is a reduction in velocity distribution with augmentation of porosity parameter values.



4.2 Temperature profile
Impact of Prandtl number Pr upon temperature θ(ξ) is discussed in Figure 5. It is obvious from this Figure 5 that an augmentation in Pr reduces the temperature profile θ(ξ) of the fluid. Since an increment in Pr reduces thermal conductivity of nanoparticles that results in the decline of heat transmission rate of stretching surface. This physical phenomenon drops down the thermal boundary layer and hence temperature profile reduces ultimately. Impact of Ec on temperature is shown in Figure 6. From this figure we see that with enhancement of Eckert number Ec the dimensionless temperature θ(ξ) also increases. Actually the augmentations in Ec increase thermal boundary layer which result in alteration of internal kinetic energy into heat energy. In this physical phenomenon temperature of the nanoparticles also increases. Impact of Nb upon dimensionless temperature is given in Figure 7. From this Figure 7 we understand that advancement in Nb prompts casual acceleration in nanoparticles. Physically, the flighty movement of liquid bundles showed up because of an expanding pattern in Brownian movement, along these lines an upgrading nature of temperature profile is noted. Figure 8 presents impact of thermophoretic parameter Nt upon temperature distribution. The spread of liquid units from the hotter to the colder level and builds the warm limit layer for the stream framework. Consequently the expansion in thermophoretic parameter Nt increases temperature of nanofluid. Figure 9 depicts impact of Brinkman viscosity number γ upon temperature. It is obvious from this Figure 9 that θ(ξ) profile is a developing function of Brinkman number. A reduction in temperature within boundary layer is also observed with growing estimations of porosity factor is given in Figure 10. From Figure 11 we see an increasing behavior in temperature profile with augmentation in radiation parameter Rd. Actually an augmentation in Rd results in increasing of thermal boundary layer thickness and hence temperature of nanofluid rises.







4.3 Concentration profile
Next we discuss impact of Nb, Nt, and Le upon concentration distribution. From Figure 12 we see that increasing values of Brownian parameter reduces concentration of nanoparticles. Physically, the Brownian movement is more grounded if there should be an occurrence of more modest nanoparticles which compares to bigger the Nb value and opposite is the circumstance for more modest estimations of Nb. Since for rising estimations of Nb boundary layer thickness with small concentration is produced. Therefore, augmentation in Brownian motion parameter reduces concentration profile. Figure 13 depicts influence of thermophoretic parameter upon concentration. For increasing values of Nt concentration of nanofluid also enhances. The concentration bends for various estimations of Lewis number have been appeared in Figure 14. From the definition of Lewis number, it is clear that an increment in Lewis number might be a direct result of a bigger thermal diffusivity of the liquid for a steady mass diffusivity. This reasons an upsurge of the flow within the boundary layer. Moreover increasing estimations of Lewis number reduces concentration distribution as given in Figure 14.



5 TABLE DISCUSSION
In this subsection, some numerical tables are constructed to discuss the impact of various physical parameters involved in the modeled problem. Tables 1–3 are given below to discuss the effect of these constraints upon velocity, temperature, and concentration distributions respectively for flow problems. Moreover, the effect of various physical parameters upon Nusselt number, skin friction, and Sherwood number is exposed in Tables 4 and 5.
F1 | k1 | M | f(ξ) | f′(ξ) |
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0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.0330098 | 0.1863375 |
0.2 | 1.0448403 | 0.1893591 | ||
0.3 | 1.0567900 | 0.1924143 | ||
0.1 | 1.0125005 | 0.1799903 | ||
0.2 | 1.0330098 | 0.1863374 | ||
0.3 | 1.0537430 | 0.1927703 | ||
0.1 | 0.9326803 | 0.1554484 | ||
0.2 | 0.9523051 | 0.1614577 | ||
0.3 | 0.9721494 | 0.1675508 |
Le | M | Pr | Ec | k1 | Rd | θ(ξ) |
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0.3 | 0.45 | 0.35 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.52 | 0.3103688 |
0.4 | 0.3103636 | |||||
0.5 | 0.3103584 | |||||
0.3 | 0.3103627 | |||||
0.4 | 0.3103668 | |||||
0.5 | 0.3103709 | |||||
0.3 | 0.2982102 | |||||
0.4 | 0.3192600 | |||||
0.5 | 0.3313846 | |||||
0.3 | 0.3105538 | |||||
0.4 | 0.3109237 | |||||
0.5 | 0.3112937 | |||||
0.3 | 0.3100421 | |||||
0.4 | 0.3098233 | |||||
0.5 | 0.3096038 | |||||
0.3 | 0.3188189 | |||||
0.4 | 0.3149996 | |||||
0.5 | 0.3111442 |
M | Le | Pr | ϕ(ξ) |
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0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3515605 |
0.5 | 0.3522047 | ||
0.6 | 0.3528510 | ||
0.4 | 0.4242647 | ||
0.5 | 0.4598081 | ||
0.6 | 0.4948172 | ||
0.1 | 7.3106112 | ||
0.2 | 1.6149283 | ||
0.3 | 0.3515605 |
M | Pr | Ec | k1 | Rd | γ | F1 | f′′(0) | −θ′(0) |
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0.3 | 0.35 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.52 | 0.30 | 0.17 | 1.3073906 | - |
0.4 | 1.3452373 | - | ||||||
0.5 | 1.3820391 | - | ||||||
0.6 | 1.4178765 | - | ||||||
0.1 | - | 0.2504054 | ||||||
0.2 | - | 0.3039555 | ||||||
0.3 | - | 0.3595777 | ||||||
0.4 | - | 0.4162472 | ||||||
0.1 | - | 0.3728367 | ||||||
0.2 | - | 0.3828395 | ||||||
0.3 | - | 0.3928422 | ||||||
0.4 | - | 0.4028448 | ||||||
0.1 | 1.2885427 | 0.3916417 | ||||||
0.2 | 1.3268252 | 0.3841455 | ||||||
0.3 | 1.3640348 | 0.3770494 | ||||||
0.4 | 1.4002552 | 0.3703131 | ||||||
0.1 | - | 1.1609536 | ||||||
0.2 | - | 0.7249261 | ||||||
0.3 | - | 0.5515173 | ||||||
0.4 | - | 0.4608888 | ||||||
0.1 | - | 0.3683399 | ||||||
0.2 | - | 0.3830912 | ||||||
0.3 | - | 0.3978435 | ||||||
0.4 | - | 0.4125957 | ||||||
0.1 | 1.2903560 | - | ||||||
0.2 | 1.3152446 | - | ||||||
0.3 | 1.3397070 | - | ||||||
0.4 | 1.3637635 | - |
Nt | Le | Nb | −ϕ(ξ) |
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0.4 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.2705701 |
0.5 | 0.4642017 | ||
0.6 | 0.4810516 | ||
1 | 0.4542206 | ||
2 | 0.2678081 | ||
3 | 0.1648102 | ||
0.3 | 4.4106102 | ||
0.5 | 2.6159202 | ||
0.7 | 1.1602704 |
6 CONCLUSIONS
- Increasing values of magnetic parameter increases Lorentz force and hence reduces velocity profile.
- Temperature is a developing function of Brinkman number, radiation parameter, and a declining function of porosity parameter.
- An augmentation in inertial/Forchheimer parameter causes a reduction in fluid velocity distribution. Moreover velocity is also a reducing function of porosity parameter as it has an adverse effect on velocity profile.
- The rise in Brownian motion parameter increases thermal boundary layer and hence temperature of fluid upsurges. Same effects upon temperature profile are also observed for upsurge in thermophoretic factor.
- Augmentation in Prandtl number decreases thermal conductivity of nanoparticles that results in the decline of heat transmission rate of stretching surface and hence temperature of fluid drops.
- Concentration profile is growing function of thermophoretic parameter and a reducing function of Brownian motion parameter and Lewis number.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors acknowledged the financial support provided by the Center of Excellence in Theoretical and Computational Science (TaCS-CoE), KMUTT.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare no competing interests.
NOMENCLATURE
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- V = (u, v)
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- velocity field
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- (x, y)
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- polar coordinates
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- σ1
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- Stefan Boltzman constant (kg s−3 k−4)
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- σ0
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- magnetic permeability (NA−2)
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- M
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- magnetic field parameter
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- Pr
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- Prandtl number
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- β0
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- applied magnetic field
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- Cw, C∞
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- concentration near and far away the surface respectively
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- Tw
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- surface temperature
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- Cw
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- surface concentration
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- w
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- condition on surface
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- F1
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- inertia coefficient
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- k1
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- porosity parameter
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- R
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- radiation parameter
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- ρnf
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- density (kg m−3)
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- θ
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- dimensionless temperature (−)
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- (ρcp)nf
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- nanofluid heat capacity (m2s−2K−1)
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- Le
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- Lewis number (−)
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- μnf
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- dynamic viscosity (kg m−1 s−1)
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- γ
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- curvature parameter (−)
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- χ
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- mean absorption coefficient (−)
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- T
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- temperature of the fluid
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- γ
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- curvature parameter (−)
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- ∞
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- ambient condition
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- k
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- thermal conductivity (W m−1 K−1)
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- Ec
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- Eckert number
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- Rex
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- Reynolds number
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- Nu
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- Nusselt number
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- Cf
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- skin friction coefficient
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- qr
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- radiative heat flux (kg s−1)
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- Tw, T∞
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- temperatures near and far away the surface respectively
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- μe
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- effective viscosity (−)
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- μnf
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- dynamic viscosity (kg m−1 s−1)
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- γ
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- Brinkman viscosity number
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- C
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- concentration of the Fluid
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- ν
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- kinematic viscosity
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- ϕ
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- dimensionless concentration (−)
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- σnf
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- electrical conductivity
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- f'
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- dimensionless velocity (−)
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- '
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- differentiation w.r.t ξ
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- ξ
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- similarity variable (−)
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- Q
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- heat flux (J s−1)
Biographies
MUHAMMAD JAWAD received the M.Sc and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan. He is currently a Lecturer with the Mathematics Department, University of Swabi, Pakistan. His research interests include Entropy optimization, Nanofluid, Darcy -Forchheimer, Computational fluid dynamics, Simulation, Heat transfer, MHD, Bio mathematics and Magnetohydrodynamic.
ANWAR SAEED received the MPhil degree in Mathematics from Islamia College University, Peshawar, Pakistan, and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan. He is currently a Principal with the Education Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. His research interests include Nanofluid, Computational fluid dynamics, Simulation, Heat transfer, Nonlinear science, Magnetohydrodynamic, and Bio mathematics.
Dr. Zahir Shah Received MSc Degree from university of Malaknad lower Dir chakdara, KPK,Pakistan and MPhil degree from Islamia college university Peshawar Pakistan. He got PHD degree from abdul wali khan university Mardan Pakistan. He is currently doing Post doc in Center of Excellence in Theoretical and Computational Science (TaCS-CoE), SCL 802 Fixed Point Laboratory, Science Laboratory Building, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), 126 Pracha-Uthit Road, Bang Mod, Thrung Khru, Bangkok 10140, Thailand.His research interests are Nanofluid, CFD, simulation, heat transfer, MHD, Hall Effect, Mesoscopic modeling, Nonlinear Science, Magnetohydrodynamic,Ferrohydrodynamic,Electrohydrodynamic and Heat exchangers.
Professor Saeed Islam He received MSc Degree from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He got PhD degree from Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, CHINA. He is currently working as Professor/Chairman Department of Mathematics, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KPK, Pakistan. His research interests are Nanofluid, CFD, simulation, heat transfer, MHD, Bio mathematics, Mesoscopic modeling, Nonlinear Science, Magnetohydrodynamic, Ferrohydrodynamic, Electrohydrodynamic and Heat exchangers. He has written several papers and books in various filed of mechanical engineering.
Poom Kumam received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Naresuan University, Thailand. He is currently a full Professor at the Department of Mathematics, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT). He is also the Head of KMUTT Fixed Point Theory and Applications Research Group and the Theoretical and Computational Science Center (TaCS-Center) at KMUTT. In addition, He is the Director of Computational and Applied Science for Smart Innovation Cluster (CLASSIC Research Cluster), KMUTT. He has authored or co-authored more than 400 international peer reviewed journals and his main research interests include fixed point theory and applications, computational fixed point algorithms, nonlinear optimization and control theory, optimization algorithms.