On Mixed Convection Squeezing Flow of Nanofluids

Sheikh Irfan Ullah Khan, Ebraheem Alzahrani, Umar Khan, Noreena Zeb and Anwar Zeb
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Sheikh Irfan Ullah Khan: Department of Mathematics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
Ebraheem Alzahrani: Department of Mathematics, King Abdul Aziz University, P. O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
Umar Khan: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hazara University, Mansehra 21130, Pakistan
Noreena Zeb: Department of Mathematics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
Anwar Zeb: Department of Mathematics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 12, 1-19

Abstract: In this article, the impact of effective Prandtl number model on 3D incompressible flow in a rotating channel is proposed under the influence of mixed convection. The coupled nonlinear system of partial differential equations is decomposed into a highly nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations with aid of suitable similarity transforms. Then, the solution of a nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations is obtained numerically by using Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg (RKF) method. Furthermore, the surface drag force C f and the rate of heat transfer N u are portrayed numerically. The effects of different emerging physical parameters such as Hartmann number (M), Reynold’s number (Re), squeezing parameter ( β ), mixed convection parameter λ , and volume fraction ( φ ) are also incorporated graphically for γ — alumina. Due to the higher viscosity and thermal conductivity ethylene-based nanofluids, it is observed to be an effective common base fluid as compared to water. These observations portrayed the temperature of gamma-alumina ethylene-based nanofluids rising on gamma-alumina water based nanofluids.

Keywords: mixed convection; squeezing flow; gamma-alumina nanoparticles; MHD effect; numerical solutions (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: 2020
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