Variable thermal conductivity influence on micropolar nanofluid flow triggered by a stretchable disk with Arrhenius activation energy

Abstract

AbstractThe analysis of magnetized micro–nanoliquid flows generated by the movable disk is executed in this study. The disk is contained under the porous zone influence. The heat generation, heat sink, and temperature‐dependent conductance analysis are reported through the energy equation. The activation energy in terms of a chemical reaction is incorporated through the mass equation. The flow model is normalized through the implementation of similarity transformations. The numerical algorithm Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg is used to solve the reduced system. Results are plotted graphically and in tabular format to investigate the velocity, thermal, and concentration fields. Numeric benchmarks of couple and shear stresses, thermal and concentration rates are also computed. The temperature is augmented against the incremented thermophoretic, variable conductivity, and Brownian movement parameters. The presence of variable conductivity parameter resulted in a weaker rate of heat transportation. The heat transportation rate is boosted with an incremented Prandtl number.