Numerical analysis of the heat transfer application on a convective tangent hyperbolic nanofluid flow over a porous stretching cylinder with stratification effects

Abstract

The nanofluids has attractive applications in the industrials and engineering field because nanofluids offer the improvement in the thermal efficiencies of flow, which is very fruitful in the energy sector. This study emphases on the numerical exploration of heat and mass transfer efficiencies on a mixed convective flow of tangent hyperbolic nanofluid under the consideration of gyrotactic microorganisms. To analyze the magnetized boundary layer flow, the stratification boundary conditions are considered on the surface of the stretching cylinder. The thermal analysis involves the important features such as activation energy, nonuniform heat source/sink, and nonlinear thermal radiation. The flow model is altered into system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations by utilization of suitable similarity variables and Bvp4c solver on the MATLAB to find numerical solutions. The graphical and tabulated investigation is presented for various developing parameters thoroughly. The results indicate that by the increment of mixed convection parameters the fluid velocity accelerate consequently, whereas raising values of the Weissenberg number reduce the fluid velocity. TThe greater values of the Prandtl number lead to a decrease in fluid temperature, while the concentration of nanoparticles rises with the increase in activation energy parameters. Additionally, the heat transfer rate reduces due to stronger values of thermophoresis parameter, although reverse tendency is observed for the greater values of Brownian motion parameter.