Magnetohydrodynamic and Heat Transfer Effects on the Stagnation-Point Flow of an Electrically Conducting Nanofluid Past a Porous Vertical Shrinking/Stretching Sheet in the Presence of Variable Stream Conditions
R. Kandasamy1, V. V. Balachandar2, S. B. Hasan2
1Research Centre for Computational Mathematics, Malaysia
2Universiti Tun Hussein Onn, Johor, Malaysia
Keywords: поток вблизи точки торможения, наножидкость, броуновское движение, термофорез, магнитное поле, stagnation-point flow, nanofluid, Brownian motion, thermophoresis, magnetic field
Abstract
A steady two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic stagnation-point flow of an electrically conducting fluid and heat transfer with thermal radiation of a nanofluid past a shrinking and stretching sheet is investigated numerically. The model used for the nanofluid incorporates the effects of the Brownian motion and thermophoresis. A similarity transformation is used to convert the governing nonlinear boundary-layer equations into coupled higher-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The result shows that the velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles are significantly influenced by the Brownian motion, heat radiation, and thermophoresis particle deposition
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