Abstract
Abstract
Background
Many investigations have been conducted by researchers across the globe to examine the behavior of fluids with respect to the influence of some constituent parameters and novel results have been obtained. However, the combined effect of thermal radiation and chemical reaction on micropolar nanofluid flow over an inclined stretching surface has not been well elucidated. This article, therefore, employed the mathematical model of Buongiorno for hydromagnetic micropolar nanofluids to study the effect of thermal radiation and chemical reaction on such fluids. The model examined the influence of thermophoresis, Brownian motion and the angle of inclination to the stretching surface on the fluid flow. The set of governing equations were transformed into ordinary differential equations using some similarity transformations and then numerically simplified through Chebyshev collocation method on MATHEMATICA software.
Results
The graphs thus derived were used to interpret the effect of some physical parameters on the fluid flow. It was observed among other results obtained, that thermal radiation, Brownian motion and thermophoresis enhanced the temperature profile of the flow while the inclination angle and chemical reaction declined the velocity and concentration, respectively.
Conclusions
These parameters tested on the various profiles proved observably effective on micropolar nanofluids and should be considered whenever improvement or decrease in the profiles are needed.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Pharmaceutical Science,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous),Medicine (miscellaneous)
Cited by
4 articles.
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