Bidirectional rotating flow of nanofluid over a variable thickened stretching sheet with non-Fourier's heat flux and non-Fick's mass flux theory.

The flow of nanofluid over a variable thickened stretching sheet is studied in this article. Non-Fourier's heat flux and non-Fick's mass flux are incorporated for heat and mass flow analysis. Silver (Ag) and Copper (Cu) are considered nanoparticles with water as base fluid. The resulting equations are transformed into the dimensionless form using similarity transformation and solved by RK-4 with the shooting method. The impact of the governing parameters on the dimensionless velocity, temperature, concentration, skin friction coefficient, streamlines, and finally isotherms are incorporated. It is observed that increment in power-law index parameter uplifts the fluid flow, heat, and mass transfer. The increase in the magnitude of skin friction coefficient in (x-direction) with wall thickness parameter is high for nanofluid containing silver nanoparticles as compared to copper nanoparticles.

Impact of heat generation/absorption of magnetohydrodynamics Oldroyd-B fluid impinging on an inclined stretching sheet with radiation.

In this paper, we have investigated thermally stratified MHD flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid over an inclined stretching surface in the presence of heat generation/absorption. Similarity solutions for the transformed governing equations are obtained. The reduced equations are solved numerically using the Runge-Kutta Fehlberg method with shooting technique. The influences of various involved parameters on velocity profiles, temperature profiles, local skin friction, and local Nusselt number are discussed. Numerical values of local skin friction and local Nusselt number are computed. The significant outcomes of the study are that the velocity decreases when the radiation parameter [Formula: see text] is increased while the temperature profile is increased for higher values of radiation parameter [Formula: see text] in case of opposing flow, moreover, growth in Deborah number [Formula: see text] enhance the velocity and momentum boundary layer. The heat transfer rate is decrease due to magnetic strength but increase with the increased values of Prandtl and Deborah numbers. The results of this model are closely matched with the outputs available in the literature.

Outlining the impact of melting on MHD Casson fluid flow past a stretching sheet in a porous medium with radiation.

This article focused on framing the features of melting heat transfer on magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Casson fluid flow in a porous medium influenced by thermal radiation. The present model is employed to simulate the viscoelastic behavior of fluid in the porous regime. Firstly, the governing partial differential equations are converted into ordinary differential equations via suitable similarity transformation and then solved the developed nonlinear equations by using Runge-Kutta Fehlberg-45 order method. A detailed analysis of certain parameters on the velocity, temperature, skin friction coefficient, and reduced Nusselt number are illustrated and examined. The results indicate that enlargement in M and Ω decline velocity profile but an opposite trend for temperature. Furthermore, an increment in R and M e results in uphill Nusselt number. The results of the present analysis are compared with the available works in particular situations and more agreement has been observed.

Optimal homotopy asymptotic method for flow and heat transfer of a viscoelastic fluid in an axisymmetric channel with a porous wall.

In this article, an approximate analytical solution of flow and heat transfer for a viscoelastic fluid in an axisymmetric channel with porous wall is presented. The solution is obtained through the use of a powerful method known as Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method (OHAM). We obtained the approximate analytical solution for dimensionless velocity and temperature for various parameters. The influence and effect of different parameters on dimensionless velocity, temperature, friction factor, and rate of heat transfer are presented graphically. We also compared our solution with those obtained by other methods and it is found that OHAM solution is better than the other methods considered. This shows that OHAM is reliable for use to solve strongly nonlinear problems in heat transfer phenomena.