Significance of mixed convection and heat transfer flow past a vertical Riga plate in the presence of alumina nanoparticles: Analysis of streamlines for oblique stagnation point

Abstract

AbstractThe aim of the current study to inspect the magnetic flow properties and heat transport features near an oblique stagnation point of a nanofluid with mixed convection through a vertical Riga plate are examined. The Riga plate is a familiar actuator made out of permanently fixed electrodes and magnets that moved away from the plate due to an exponential decline in the Lorentz force. Nanofluid is taken into consideration due to its peculiar properties, such as remarkable thermal conductivity is the significance of the study. These properties are important in heat exchangers, electronics, advanced nanotechnology, and material sciences. Using usual similarity transformations, the group of leading partial differential equations is distorted into a group of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Then, a very proficient procedure namely bvp4c is utilized to discover the solution. For particular values of the different influential fluid parameters, the characteristics of the dimensionless temperature and velocity along with drag force and heat transfer are investigated graphically. In addition, the symmetrical results were initiated for both cases of the slip and without slip parameters. It is demonstrated that for greater influence of the volume fraction of nanoparticles, the normal and tangential velocity profile drops down for the instances of aiding and opposing flows due to fluctuations in the presence of slip factor, and absence of slip factor. In contrast, the temperature profile intensifies in both the cases of slip parameters and without the slip parameter owing to the phenomenon of assisting flow and opposing flow subject to superior impressions of the nanoparticle volume fractions. It is also observed that depending on the equilibrium between buoyancy effects, obliqueness, velocity slip parameters, and straining motion, the location of the point of zero shear stress (friction factor on the surface of the wall) is displaced to the right or the left of the origin.