Radiative and MHD Effects on Time-Dependent Thermal-Material Transfer by Micropolar Binary Mixture

Abstract

Radiation is an important branch of thermal engineering which includes geophysical thermal insulation, ground water pollution, food processing, cooling of electronic components, oil recovery processes etc. An analysis of unsteady magneto-convective heat-mass transport by micropolar binary mixture of fluid passing a continuous permeable surface with thermal radiation effect has been introduced in this paper. The governing equations are transformed into coupled ordinary differential equations along with Boussinesq approximation by imposing the similarity analysis. Applying the shooting technique, the obtained non-linear coupled similarity equations are solved numerically with the help of “ODE45 MATLAB” software. The results of the numerical solutions to the problem involving velocity, temperature, concentration and micro-rotation are presented graphically for different dimensionless parameters and numbers encountered. With an increase of suction parameter, the velocity distributions very closed to the inclined permeable wall decrease slightly where 0 ≤ η ≤ 0.3 . But for the uplifting values of sunction, both micro-rotation profile and species concentration enhance through the boundary layer. The skin-friction coefficient increases about 61%, 13%, 27% for rising values of Prandtl number (0.71-7), radiation effect (0 - 1) and thermal Grashof number (5-10), respectively, but an adverse effect is observed for magnetic field (1 - 4), inclined angle 0 0 − 60 0 and Schmidt number (0.22 - 0.75). Heat transfer and mass transfer reduce about 82%, 53%, respectively, in increasing of Pr (0.71-1) and 36%, 11%, respectively, in increasing of thermal radiation (0 - 1). The surface couple stress increases about 26%, 49%, 64% and 30% with the increasing values of magnetic field (1-4), inclination angle 0 0 − 60 0 , suction (0-1) and Schmidt number (0.22-0.75), respectively. Finally, the present study has been compared with the earlier published results. It is observed that the comparison bears a good agreement.