Chemical entropy generation and second-order slip condition on hydrodynamic Casson nanofluid flow embedded in a porous medium: a fast convergent method

Adebowale Martins Obalalu

doi:10.1186/s42787-022-00140-3

Adebowale Martins Obalalu

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s42787-022-00140-3

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Abstract

The chemical entropy generation analysis is an approach to optimize the performance of different thermal systems by investigating the related irreversibility of the system. The influences of second-order slip with the chemical reaction on the boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a non-Newtonian nanofluid in a non-Darcian porous medium have been investigated numerically. Simultaneous solutions are presented for first and second-order velocity slips. The second-order boundary conditions serve as a closure of a system of the continuity, transport, and energy differential equations. The current work differs from the previous studies in the application of a new second-order slip velocity model. The Casson fluid model is applied to characterize the non-Newtonian fluid behavior. The effect of the second slip parameter on the present physical parameters was discussed through graphs and it was found that this type of slip is a very important one to predict the investigated physical model. The present study provides two fast convergent methods on the semi-infinite interval, namely Chebyshev collocation method and optimal homotopy analysis method are used to analyze the fluid flow, heat, and mass transport. Compared with available analytical and numerical solutions, current methods are effective, quickly converging, and with great accuracy. It was shown that the account for the second-order terms in the boundary conditions noticeably affects the fluid flow characteristics and does not influence on the heat transfer characteristics.

Highlights

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the optimization of chemical processes, leading to Energy savings or enhancing their efficiency [1]
At a reasonable rate to proceed with a chemical reaction, there exist a significant number of atoms or molecules with translational energy treater than or equal to the activation energy
The weighted residual method [36, 37], finite difference method [38], finite different element [39], Runge–Kutta scheme [40], different kinds of spectral methods for solving problems in bounded domains or under particular boundary conditions have been explored in many studies some analytical approaches have been found very useful In the analysis of magneto-hydrodynamic Casson nanofluid flow, Analytic solution in cases of severe nonlinearity is important

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Introduction

There has been an increasing interest in the optimization of chemical processes, leading to Energy savings or enhancing their efficiency [1]. The effect of Arrhenius energy and chemical reaction on hydromagnetic nanofluid of Casson flow of two dimensional electrically conducting thermal were numerical study by [5, 6]. The weighted residual method [36, 37], finite difference method [38], finite different element [39], Runge–Kutta scheme [40], different kinds of spectral methods for solving problems in bounded domains or under particular boundary conditions have been explored in many studies some analytical approaches have been found very useful In the analysis of magneto-hydrodynamic Casson nanofluid flow, Analytic solution in cases of severe nonlinearity is important.

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