Alexandria Engineering Journal (Jul 2023)
Thermally progressive Particle-Cu/Blood peristaltic transport with mass transfer in a Non-Uniform Wavy Channel: Closed-form exact solutions
Abstract
The motivation behind writing the current article is to mathematically study the thermally driven transport of solute particles (measured in micro to nano meters) suspended in blood in an Esophagus mathematically taken as a non-uniform channel. The aim of the present study is to see the effects of solute particles with blood and nanoparticles in Esophagus to see its application in drug delivery and biomedical engineering etc. It also has many applications in microscale phenomena in physiology. Here blood is taken as a base fluid and nanofluid is prepared by the suspension of copper oxide nanoparticles in blood. Copper oxide is extremely useful in the medical domain for drug delivery and cancer treatment. To further study the impact of nanomedicine delivery we considered copper nanoparticles embedded in blood along other small sized solute particles. The mathematical formulation is performed in a rectangular coordinate system and constitutive flow equations are linearized by the implementation of approximations of low Reynolds number and large wavelength. The exact solution of reduced coupled and nonlinear set of equations for fluid particle velocity, temperature and fluid-particle composition profiles is computed through Mathematica while pressure rise is calculated by applying numerical integration. The effect of notable emerging parameters is discussed through graphs. It is observed that velocity rises with an increase in suspension and Casson fluid parameter, whereas opposite results are observed for temperature distribution. Nanoparticles volumetric fraction contribute to decelerating fluid flow and upsurge temperature. Schmidt number influences the fluid-particle composition by lessening it. PACS number: 47.10. A−; 47.35.Pq; 47.85.-g.