Heat transfer in a reversible esterification process of hydromagnetic Casson fluid with Arrhenius activation energy

Abstract

Engineering technology is rapidly changing, and activation and binary chemical reactions have many uses in the fields of chemical engineering, processing food, and mobility and Geothermal reservoir, etc. Energy activation stimulates reactants with the least energy whenever a chemical transition occurs. The thermophysical features of viscoelastic fluids are based on internal energy change, which has been discussed for years. With this significance the current proposal focuses on the heat transfer process in reversible esterification reactions. The reversible chemical reaction and the activation energy with hydromagnetic movement of Casson fluid are considered. A complex multivariate partial differential equation set can be reduced to ordinary differential equations using appropriate variables. A numerical method is utilized to determine the solutions. In order to examine the outcomes of the concentration boundary layer utilizing the R-K-based shooting technique, the study primarily considers the reversible esterification process, which involves an ethanol-based reversible chemical reaction. Also, the bvp4c solver was employed to validate the results and appraise the precision of the R-K methodology. The temperature field, the momentum field, and the volumetric concentration of the esterification process are analysed in relation to a variety of numerical values. Graphical analysis considers the pertinent physical ramifications for temperature, velocity, and concentration contours. Explications that furnish a comprehension of the values accompany the tabular depictions of the heat transfer rate, local Sherwood number and skin friction. Reversible and irreversible flows differ considerably in the assessment of Sherwood number, local Nusselt number and rate of shear stress, when the inertial parameter, temperature difference parameter and activation energy are measured.

Keywords

• Heat transfer
• Reversible esterification process
• Hydromagnetic Casson fluid
• Arrhenius activation energy
• MHD
• Porous medium