Heat and mass transfer aspects of a transient bio-convective Maxwell nanofluid subject to convective boundary conditions with curved surface

Abstract

The current paper focused on an unsteady bio-convective Maxwell nanofluid flow subject to convective boundary conditions through an exponentially stretching curved surface. The transportation of heat and mass are observed with thermophoresis and Brownian effect along with chemical reaction. The mathematical flow model is converted into a system of nonlinear system of ODEs via suitable transformation. The numerical solution of a nonlinear system of equations is established with the help of bvp4c MATLAB technique. It is deeply studied that in the curved surface, the pressure is never ignored. The graphical representation of several parameters along the temperature, concentration, microorganism density and velocity distribution is presented. It is examined that the greater estimation of curvature parameter boosts the temperature of fluid and concentration of nanoparticles, although a reverse trend is seen for the velocity profile. Further, it is examined from the numerical values that the heat and mass transfer rate reduce consequently with the enlargement of the curvature parameter.