AIP Advances (Mar 2016)

Mixed convective thermally radiative micro nanofluid flow in a stretchable channel with porous medium and magnetic field

  • A. Rauf,
  • S. A. Shahzad,
  • M. K. Siddiq,
  • J. Raza,
  • M. A. Meraj

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4945369
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 3
pp. 035126 – 035126-11

Abstract

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A numerical study is carried out for two dimensional steady incompressible mixed convective flow of electrically conductive micro nanofluid in a stretchable channel. The flow is generated due to the stretching walls of the channel immersed in a porous medium. The magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the walls. The impact of radiation, viscous dissipation, thermophoretic and Brownian motion of nanoparticles appear in the energy equation. A numerical technique based on Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg fourth-fifth order (RFK45) method is used to express the solutions of velocity, microrotation, temperature and concentration fields. The dimensionless physical parameters are discussed both in tabular and graphical forms. The results are also found in a good agreement with previously published literature work.