A Numerical Analysis on the Unsteady Flow of a Thermomagnetic Reactive Maxwell Nanofluid over a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet with Ohmic Dissipation and Brownian Motion
The major objective of this current investigation is to examine the unsteady flow of a thermomagnetic reactive Maxwell nanofluid flow over a stretching/shrinking sheet with Ohmic dissipation and Brownian motion. Suitable similarity transformations were used to reduce the governing non-linear partial...
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| description | The major objective of this current investigation is to examine the unsteady flow of a thermomagnetic reactive Maxwell nanofluid flow over a stretching/shrinking sheet with Ohmic dissipation and Brownian motion. Suitable similarity transformations were used to reduce the governing non-linear partial differential equations of momentum, energy and species conservation into a set of coupled ordinary differential equations. The reduced similarity ordinary differential equations were solved numerically using the Spectral Quasi-Linearization Method. The influence of some pertinent physical parameters on the velocity, temperature and concentration distributions was studied and analysed graphically. Further investigations were made on the impact of the Eckert number, Prandtl number, Schmidt number, thermal radiation parameter, Brownian motion parameter, thermophoresis parameter and chemical reaction parameter on the skin friction coefficient, surface heat and mass transfer rates. The results were displayed in a tabular form. Obtained results reveal that the Maxwell parameter and the unsteadiness parameter reduce the Maxwell nanofluid velocity and the fluid temperature is increased with an increase in the Eckert number and thermal radiation parameter. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-19b0f3be5da2413cbdaf629353042fd22023-12-01T23:42:05ZengMDPI AGFluids2311-55212022-07-017825210.3390/fluids7080252A Numerical Analysis on the Unsteady Flow of a Thermomagnetic Reactive Maxwell Nanofluid over a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet with Ohmic Dissipation and Brownian MotionStanford Shateyi0Hillary Muzara1Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Venda, P. Bag X5050, Thohoyandou 0950, South AfricaDepartment of Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Mt. Pleasant, Harare P.O. Box MP167, ZimbabweThe major objective of this current investigation is to examine the unsteady flow of a thermomagnetic reactive Maxwell nanofluid flow over a stretching/shrinking sheet with Ohmic dissipation and Brownian motion. Suitable similarity transformations were used to reduce the governing non-linear partial differential equations of momentum, energy and species conservation into a set of coupled ordinary differential equations. The reduced similarity ordinary differential equations were solved numerically using the Spectral Quasi-Linearization Method. The influence of some pertinent physical parameters on the velocity, temperature and concentration distributions was studied and analysed graphically. Further investigations were made on the impact of the Eckert number, Prandtl number, Schmidt number, thermal radiation parameter, Brownian motion parameter, thermophoresis parameter and chemical reaction parameter on the skin friction coefficient, surface heat and mass transfer rates. The results were displayed in a tabular form. Obtained results reveal that the Maxwell parameter and the unsteadiness parameter reduce the Maxwell nanofluid velocity and the fluid temperature is increased with an increase in the Eckert number and thermal radiation parameter.https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5521/7/8/252maxwell nanofluidstretching sheetohmic dissipationbrownian motionspectral quasi-linearizationgauss–lobatto points |
| spellingShingle | Stanford Shateyi Hillary Muzara A Numerical Analysis on the Unsteady Flow of a Thermomagnetic Reactive Maxwell Nanofluid over a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet with Ohmic Dissipation and Brownian Motion Fluids maxwell nanofluid stretching sheet ohmic dissipation brownian motion spectral quasi-linearization gauss–lobatto points |
| title | A Numerical Analysis on the Unsteady Flow of a Thermomagnetic Reactive Maxwell Nanofluid over a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet with Ohmic Dissipation and Brownian Motion |
| title_full | A Numerical Analysis on the Unsteady Flow of a Thermomagnetic Reactive Maxwell Nanofluid over a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet with Ohmic Dissipation and Brownian Motion |
| title_fullStr | A Numerical Analysis on the Unsteady Flow of a Thermomagnetic Reactive Maxwell Nanofluid over a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet with Ohmic Dissipation and Brownian Motion |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Numerical Analysis on the Unsteady Flow of a Thermomagnetic Reactive Maxwell Nanofluid over a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet with Ohmic Dissipation and Brownian Motion |
| title_short | A Numerical Analysis on the Unsteady Flow of a Thermomagnetic Reactive Maxwell Nanofluid over a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet with Ohmic Dissipation and Brownian Motion |
| title_sort | numerical analysis on the unsteady flow of a thermomagnetic reactive maxwell nanofluid over a stretching shrinking sheet with ohmic dissipation and brownian motion |
| topic | maxwell nanofluid stretching sheet ohmic dissipation brownian motion spectral quasi-linearization gauss–lobatto points |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5521/7/8/252 |
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