Investigation of MHD Go-water nanofluid flow and heat transfer in a porous channel in the presence of thermal radiation effect

Abstract

In this paper, flow and heat transfer of MHD Go-water nanofluid between two parallel flat plates in the presence of thermal radiation are studied. One of plates is externally heated and cooled by coolant injection through the other plate, which also expands or contracts with time. A similarity transformation is used to transmute the governing momentum and energy equations into non-linear ordinary differential equations with the appropriate boundary conditions. The obtained non-linear ordinary differential equations are solved by Duan–Rach Approach (DRA). This method allows us to find a solution without using numerical methods to evaluate the undetermined coefficients. This method modifies the standard Adomian Decomposition Method by evaluating the inverse operators at the boundary conditions directly. The impacts of various parameters such as the Reynolds number, the expansion ratio, the magnetic parameter, the power law index, the solid volume fraction and the radiation parameter are investigated on the velocity and temperature. Furthermore, the value of the Nusselt number is calculated and presented through figures. The results indicate that the temperature profile and the Nusselt number have a direct relationship with the solid volume fraction and have an inverse relationship with the radiation parameter. In addition, the limiting cases are gained and found to be in an excellent agreement with the previous works.