Mixed Convection Stagnation-Point Flow of a Nanofluid Past a Permeable Stretching/Shrinking Sheet in the Presence of Thermal Radiation and Heat Source/Sink

Anuar Jamaludin, Roslinda Nazar and Ioan Pop
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Anuar Jamaludin: Department of Mathematics, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Roslinda Nazar: School of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Ioan Pop: Department of Mathematics, Babeş-Bolyai University, R-400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-20

Abstract: In this study we numerically examine the mixed convection stagnation-point flow of a nanofluid over a vertical stretching/shrinking sheet in the presence of suction, thermal radiation and a heat source/sink. Three distinct types of nanoparticles, copper (Cu), alumina (Al 2 O 3 ) and titania (TiO 2 ), were investigated with water as the base fluid. The governing partial differential equations were converted into ordinary differential equations with the aid of similarity transformations and solved numerically by utilizing the bvp4c programme in MATLAB. Dual (upper and lower branch) solutions were determined within a particular range of the mixed convection parameters in both the opposing and assisting flow regions and a stability analysis was carried out to identify which solutions were stable. Accordingly, solutions were gained for the reduced skin friction coefficients, the reduced local Nusselt number, along with the velocity and temperature profiles for several values of the parameters, which consists of the mixed convection parameter, the solid volume fraction of nanoparticles, the thermal radiation parameter, the heat source/sink parameter, the suction parameter and the stretching/shrinking parameter. Furthermore, the solutions were presented in graphs and discussed in detail.

Keywords: mixed convection; nanofluids; thermal radiation; heat source/sink; dual solutions; stability analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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