Oscillatory slip flow of Fe3O4 and Al2O3 nanoparticles in a vertical porous channel using Darcy's law with thermal radiation

Abstract

AbstractThe heat transfer phenomena and oscillatory flow of an electrically conducting viscous nanofluid (NF) in a channel with porous walls and saturated porous media exposed to the thermal radiation are studied. The nanoparticles (NPs) Fe3O4 and Al2O3 are taken with water as base fluid along with nonuniform temperature and velocity slip at the wall of channel (y′ = 0). The basic laws of momentum and energy conservation are converted into the dimensionless system of the partial differential equations (PDEs) using similarity variables. Closed‐form solutions of these coupled PDEs are constructed for all values of time by taking the oscillatory pressure gradient. The physical insight of involved parameters on the fluid velocity, temperature profile, heat transfer rate, and surface friction is studied and analyzed graphically. It is noted from this study that the fluid velocity shows a decreasing behavior with the volume fraction of NPs. Furthermore, the amplitude of the oscillatory motion in case of skin friction decreases for a large magnetic field.