Instigated magnetic field effect on carbon nanotubes suspensions encompassing variable thermophysical characteristics

Abstract

This communication aims to explore the instigated magnetic field and partial slip influence on nanofluid transport towards the curved stretching surface by taking into the account temperature and nanoparticles volume fraction dependent viscosity. The single and multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are incorporated in the traditional industrial fluids namely, water and propylene glycol. The Curvilinear coordinate system is opted to model the physical flow problem and simplification is performed by utilizing appropriate transformation. The velocity, pressure, induced magnetic field and temperature distributions accompanied by surface drag force and heat flux are computed numerically by employing implicit finite difference scheme. Graphs and bar charts are drawn to examine the effects of prominent substantial parameters. Some pivotal findings are that the Nusselt number was increasing function of ϕ,λ* and Rd and decreasing function of k and N. The present study is a prototype and a benchmark in exploring induced magnetic field effects on CNTs transport over a curved surface and will lead to further investigation in future and may be beneficial in polymer industry and nanotechnology.