Heat and mass transfer analysis of non‐miscible couple stress and micropolar fluids flow through a porous saturated channel

Abstract

AbstractThis study examines the flow rate, Bejan number transportation, concentration distribution and thermal characteristics of an immiscible couple stress‐ micropolar fluids within a porous channel. The authors focus on the effects of heat radiation and an angled magnetic field on the thermal dispersion, concentration distribution and entropy formation of two different types of incompressible immiscible micropolar and couple stress fluids inside a porous channel. Here, the static walls of the channel are isothermal, and the pressure gradient in the flow domain's entrance zone is constant. In this flow problem, we tried to simulate thermal radiation in the energy equation by applying Rosseland's diffusion approximation. To solve the problem, the authors have used no‐slip conditions at the channel's immovable walls, a continuity of temperature profile, shear stresses, thermal flux, linear velocity, and micro‐rotational velocity over the fluid‐fluid interface. The equations that govern the flow of immiscible fluids are solved using a well‐defined methodology and both the temperature and flow field are then evaluated using a closed‐form solution. The mathematical results of the thermal distribution and flow velocity are used to derive the Bejan number distribution and the entropy generation number. Graphical discussions are used to illustrate the impact of different emerging factors on the model's flow and thermal properties, which describe the major impact of the proposed model. These variables involve the micropolarity parameter, Reynolds number, inclination angle parameter, radiation parameter, and Hartmann number. The outcomes of the present models are corroborated by previously established results available in the literature.