Heliyon (May 2024)

MHD Maxwell dusty fluid in thermally stratified radiative flow with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity and Cattaneo-Christov model

  • Alugunuri Raghu,
  • Nagaraju Gajjela,
  • Mahesh Garvandha

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 9
p. e30355

Abstract

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It might be very important for the polymer processing industries to comprehend how Maxwell fluids behave on a stretched cylinder. Optimizing the extrusion and drawing processes can ensure the desired product qualities while avoiding faults. The objective of this study is heat transfer analysis on a Maxwell dusty fluid flow cylindrical surface with the Cattaneo-Christov concept. We immerse the cylinder in porous media, with a two-dimensional fluid regulating the flow. Our mathematical model further considers the effects of variable thermal conductivity, radiation, viscous and joule heating, magnetic field, thermal stratification, and slip velocity. Based on the presumptions, partial differential equations (PDE's) have been used to evolve the mathematical model. Using similarity transformations, the PDE's for heat and momentum for both phases are transformed into highly nonlinear ODE's.The numerical results have been obtained on these ordinary differential equations by using the RKF-45 method. This issue's main characteristic is that it examines the scenario's liquid and dust phases throughout. Results are given both visually and tabularly for the major parameters over a velocity, temperature, skin friction coefficient, and Nusselt number. When we compared our method to a previously published paper, we discovered a decent match. The findings, which were obtained for our system, show that the velocity and thermal gradient of both the phases of fluid and dust behave in an opposite trend in favor of rising Maxwell parameter, where the curvature parameter makes the rise in the same manner. Furthermore, the thermal transport profiles for both phases decline for the rising thermal time relaxation parameter.

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