Activation energy impact on unsteady Bio-convection nanomaterial flow over porous surface

Abstract

Nanofluid is an advanced technology to enhance heat transportation. Additionally, the thermal conductivity of nanofluids is high therefore, they are more useful for heat transportation. Evaluation of entropy generation has been a helpful technique for tackling improvements in thermal features because it provides information that cannot be obtained via energy analysis. For thermodynamic irreversibilities, a good approximation is the rate of entropy generation. As a result of a reduction of entropy production, energy transport infrastructure has become more efficient. This study aims to analyse the bioconvective flow of nanofluid flow through a stretching sheet in the occurence of gyrotactic motile microorganisms. A magnetised nanomaterial model with thermophoretic and Brownian diffusion properties is analysed. The impacts of activation energy, temperature dependent and exponential base heat source are investigated in this analysis. The entropy generation of the system is also observed for nanofluid flow. The mathematical model is developed as partial differential equations. The governing equations are reduced to a dimensionless system of ordinary differential equations by applying similarity transformations. The ODEs are tacked numerically with the aid of shooting scheme in commercial software MATLAB. For graphical and numerical results of flow controlling parameters versus subjective fields, the commercial software MATLAB tool bvp4 is used with the shooting scheme. The novelty of this analysis computes numerical computation of bioconvective nanofluid flow with temperature-dependent and exponential base heat source investigated. Furthermore, the consequence of thermal radiation and entropy of the system is considered. The porous medium with activation energy is also taken into consideration. The results show that the velocity field is reduced with increased bioconvection Rayleigh number. The thermal field is increased via an exponential space-based heat source. The concentration is reduced via Lewis number. the microorganisms profile declines for larger bioconvection Lewis number. The Brinkman number Br, magnetic and permeability characteristics all showed a rising trend when plotted against the entropy production rate.

Keywords

• bioconvection
• thermal conductivity
• mixed convection
• entropy generation
• nonlinear radiation