Symmetry (Jun 2020)

Bioconvection in Cross Nano-Materials with Magnetic Dipole Impacted by Activation Energy, Thermal Radiation, and Second Order Slip

  • Zahra Abdelmalek,
  • Kamel Al-Khaled,
  • Hassan Waqas,
  • A. Aldabesh,
  • Sami Ullah Khan,
  • Sa’ed A. Musmar,
  • Iskander Tlili

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12061019
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 6
p. 1019

Abstract

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Ferro liquids derive their magneto–viscous behavior from the suspended magnetic nanomaterial that enables tunable changes in temperature, as well as nano-structured fluid characteristics. A theoretical model that depicts the bioconvection flow of cross nanofluid with a magnetic dipole subjected to a cylindrical surface was developed and numerically solved. The model encountered nonlinear thermal radiation, activation energy, and second order slip. The flow equations were reduced and are presented in dimensionless forms, and they were solved numerically using the shooting technique, which is a built-in feature of MatLab. The model encountered symmetrical constraints for predicting velocity, temperature, concentration, and gyrotactic microorganism distribution and profiles. Moreover, the numerical values were computed for local Nusselt number, local Sherwood number, and motile density number against each physical parameter.

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