A comparative study of prescribed thermal analysis of a non-Newtonian fluid between exponential and linear porous surfaces

Abstract

The present study communicates with the thermal analysis of an incompressible micropolar fluid by considering two different prescribed conditions corresponding to two different surfaces. On the porous surface of two different stretchable sheets, the unsteady flow problem of a micropolar fluid is explored by taking the variable impacts of the magnetic field. For both considered sheets, the prescribed thermal analysis is carried out with the contribution of joule heating, viscous dissipation, and radiation. Two prescribed cases of surface temperature and heat flux are discussed for linear stretched surface. Similarly, prescribed cases of exponential surface temperature and exponential heat flux are investigated for the case of an exponential stretchable surface. An effective technique of bvp4c in MATLAB is utilized to numerically tackle the governing equations of the problem. Both the distributions of temperature and velocity and the field of microrotation are graphically scrutinized relative to different geometries and several pertinent parameters. This study of thermal analysis with prescribed conditions elucidates that for an exponential surface, three distributions of flow phenomenon (temperature, microrotation, velocity) manifest more prominent results in comparison to the stretchable surface with linear velocity.

Keywords

• Prescribed exponential order conditions
• Exponential stretching sheet
• Prescribed thermal conditions
• Linear stretching sheet
• Micropolar fluid
• Nonlinear thermal radiation