Results in Engineering (Mar 2024)
Adaptation of nanofluids with magnetohydrodynamic Williamson fluid to enhance the thermal and solutal flow analysis with viscous dissipation: A numerical study
Abstract
The Williamson nanofluid flow along with the thermal and solutal transport effects like enthalpy and viscous dissipation, has lots of applications in numerous engineering fields such as heat exchangers, automotive engineering, cooling systems, aerospace, and biomedical applications. The temperature-dependent viscosity has implications in the polymer processing, chemical processing, microfluidic devices, environmental fluid dynamics, and oil and gas industries. The current research deals with the numerical study of the magnetohydrodynamic flow of 2-dimensional Williamson nanofluid flowing on a stretched cylinder. The thermophysical property (viscosity) is assumed to depend on temperature for this flow system. The transmission analysis of solutal and heat processes, along with enthalpy and viscous dissipation, is also considered here. The boundary layer approach is used to address the main leading equations, and ODEs are generated from the main equations by assuming similarity transformations. The main novelty of this problem is the use of a multistep technique, which is the Adams-Bashforth Predictor and Corrector method, along with the RK-4 scheme and the secant method. The key parameters are used to illustrate the graphical and numerical behavior of the velocity, temperature, and concentration regions. The variations in the Williamson fluid coefficient cause the fluid velocity to increase, whereas alterations in the curvature parameter cause the velocity region to decrease. The temperature in a given area declines due to the impact of the Prandtl number. The fluids temperature shows augmented values in the occurrence of variation in the thermopherosis coefficient, Brownian motion coefficient, curvature parameter, and heat generation parameter. The curvature parameter, thermopherosis coefficient, and activation energy lead to an increase in the fluid concentration region, whereas a decrease in concentration is noted due to the Brownian motion coefficient, Damkholer number and Schmidt number.
