MHD Flow and Heat Transfer of Maxwell Nanofluid Over an Unsteady Permeable Shrinking Sheet with Convective Boundary Conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 995-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mondal ◽  
S. K. Nandy ◽  
P. Sibanda
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Mhd Flow ◽  
Shrinking Sheet ◽  
Convective Boundary Conditions ◽  
Convective Boundary ◽  
Maxwell Nanofluid ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

MHD flow and heat transfer over a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in a hybrid nanofluid with a convective boundary condition

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 3012-3038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emad H. Aly ◽  
Ioan Pop
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Mhd Flow ◽  
Convective Boundary Condition ◽  
Shrinking Sheet ◽  
Hybrid Nanofluid ◽  
Convective Boundary ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

Purpose The purpose of this study is to present both effective analytic and numerical solutions to MHD flow and heat transfer past a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in a hybrid nanofluid with suction/injection and convective boundary conditions. Water (base fluid) nanoparticles of alumina and copper were considered as a hybrid nanofluid. Design/methodology/approach Proper-similarity variables were applied to transform the system of partial differential equations into a system of ordinary (similarity) differential equations. Exact analytical solutions were then presented for the dimensionless stream and temperature functions. Further, the authors introduce a very nice analytic and numerical solutions for both small and large values of the magnetic parameter. Findings It was found that no/unique/two equal/dual physical solutions exist for the investigated boundary value problem. The physically realizable practice of these solutions depends on the range of the governing parameters. For a stretching/shrinking sheet, it was deduced that a hybrid nanofluid works as a cooler on increasing some of the investigated parameters. Moreover, in the case of a shrinking sheet, the first solutions of hybrid nanofluid are stable and physically realizable rather than the nanofluid, while those of the second solutions are not for both hybrid nanofluid and nanofluid. Originality/value The present results for the hybrid nanofluids are new and original, as they successfully extend (generalize) the problems previously considered by different authors for the case of nanofluids.

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