Heat Transfer Analysis for Three-Dimensional Stagnation-Point Flow of Water-Based Nanofluid Over an Exponentially Stretching Surface

Abstract

The basic theme of this investigation is to analyze heat and mass transport for three-dimensional (3D) stagnation-point flow of nanofluid caused by an exponentially stretched surface when water is treated as base fluid. In this study, we invoked the boundary layer phenomena and suitable similarity transformation of exponential character; as a result, our 3D nonlinear equations of momentum and energy are transmuted into nonlinear and nonhomogeneous differential equations involving ordinary derivatives. Final equations are then puzzled out by applying homotopy analysis technique. Interesting outcomes of aggressing parameters involved in this study, and effecting profiles of temperature field and velocity are explained in detail. Graphical results of involved parameters appearing in considered nanofluid are presented separately. Different aspects of skin friction coefficient as well as Nusselt number are calculated. It is worth mentioning that skin friction (as we go) along x and y-direction is maximal for Cu-water nanofluid and minimal for AL2O3-water nanofluid. Also, the resulting quantity of local Nusselt number came out maximum for Cu-water nanofluid whereas minimum for TiO2-water nanofluid.