Scientific Reports (Sep 2021)

The intelligent networks for double-diffusion and MHD analysis of thin film flow over a stretched surface

  • Iftikhar Uddin,
  • Ikram Ullah,
  • Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja,
  • Muhammad Shoaib,
  • Saeed Islam,
  • M. S. Zobaer,
  • K. S. Nisar,
  • C. Ahamed Saleel,
  • Saad Alshahrani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97458-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Abstract This study presents a novel application of soft-computing through intelligent, neural networks backpropagated by Levenberg–Marquardt scheme (NNs-BLMS) to solve the mathematical model of unsteady thin film flow of magnetized Maxwell fluid with thermo-diffusion effects and chemical reaction (TFFMFTDECR) over a horizontal rotating disk. The expression for thermophoretic velocity is accounted. Energy expression is deliberated with the addition of non-uniform heat source. The PDEs of mathematical model of TFFMFTDECR are transformed to ODEs by the application of similarity transformations. A dataset is generated through Adams method for the proposed NNs-BLMS in case of various scenarios of TFFMFTDECR model by variation of rotation parameter, magnetic parameter, space dependent heat sink/source parameter, temperature dependent heat sink/source parameter and chemical reaction controlling parameter. The designed computational solver NNs-BLMS is implemented by performing training, testing and validation for the solution of TFFMFTDECR system for different variants. Variation of various physical parameters are designed via plots and explain in details. It is depicted that thin film thickness increases for higher values of disk rotation parameter, while it diminishes for higher magnetic parameter. Furthermore, higher values of Dufour number and the corresponding diminishing values of Soret number causes enhancement in fluid temperature profile. Further the effectiveness of NNs-BLMS is validated by comparing the results of the proposed solver and the standard solution of TFFMFTDECR model through error analyses, histogram representations and regression analyses.