International Journal of Thermofluids (Nov 2023)
Combined effects of Joule heating and binary chemical reaction of MHD Williamson nanofluid on Darcy–Forchheimer porous medium past unsteady stretching cylinder
Abstract
In this study, the convective transport phenomena of Williamson nanofluid flow with variable thermal conductivity on Darcy–Forchheimer porous medium past unsteady stretching cylindrical sheet is presented. The conservation laws of mass, momentum, energy and concentration are used to formulate the governing boundary value problem of the flow regime. The flow is expressed with a couple of nonlinear partial differential equations. An appropriate similarity transformation and techniques are used to transform the couple of partial differential equations into a system of initial value problems. The system of initial value problems is then solved numerically using the Runge–Kutta fourth order with the shooting technique. The Python programming tool is used to carry out the computation. The influence of unsteady parameter, thermal and concentration Biot numbers, thermal conductivity parameter and other parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration profiles of the nanofluid are examined. The responses of the three transfer rates (i.e momentum, mass and heat) to many pertinent parameters are also investigated. Most flows in industries are in a controlled manner hence the cylindrical geometry is used to study the flow regime. The results of the study show that the convective mass transfer is initiated with a rise in thermal and concentration Biot numbers whereas the convective heat transfer is motivated and demotivated with a rise in thermal and concentration Biot numbers, respectively. Larger values of the unsteady parameter on the other hand creates substantial wall friction to the motion of the nanofluid. Further, the numerical method used is found in excellent agreement with some earlier works under common assumptions.
