Magnetohydrodynamic study of Micropolar fluid flow in the porous walled channel with variable viscosity and thermal conductivity: HAM Solution

Abstract

This article examines the production of entropy and the heat transfer rate in the passage of micropolar fluid through a channel. The micropolar fluid takes place through the porous walled channel under the presence of an external magnetic field acting in the perpendicular direction of the flow. In this work, the thermal conductivity and viscosity of the fluid is considered variable and are the function of the temperature. Here, we consider two-dimensional creeping flow with two different forms of temperature boundary conditions, namely, Newtonian heating (NH) boundary constraints and specified surface temperature (SST) boundary conditions. The flow of the micropolar fluid in the proposed problem is governed by the coupled non-linear PDEs. These PDEs are first transformed into the ODEs by the use of some suitable similarity transformations and then obtained ODEs are further solved by using the semi-analytic Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM). This article shows the effect of various flow parameters on the fluid’s velocity, heat transfer rate, temperature of the fluid, and entropy production for both types of thermal boundary conditions. Through this article, it is concluded that the entropy production is minimal for Newtonian heating (NH) boundary conditions as compared to specified surface temperature (SST) boundary conditions. This result suggests that the NH boundary condition is more suitable for electrical appliances as compared to the SST boundary condition. This type of model is applicable in nuclear reactors, engineering appliances, heat reservoirs, etc.