Stefan flow of nanoliquid passing a plate surface with changeable fluid properties

Abstract

This article describes the significance of ‘Stefan suction/blowing’ on the forced flow of nanoliquid past the surface of a ‘plate’ with temperature-obeying ‘thermal conductivity’ and ‘fluid viscosity’ with ‘zero nanoparticle flux’ at the ‘plate’ that has not till been attended by anyone and thus it points to the originality of present investigation and here lies the novelty of our work. Nanofluid flow is modeled with the help of ‘Buongiorno's two-phase model’ which contains the instantaneous virtue of thermophoresis diffusion and Brownian movement. This investigation shows that the speed of heat transport is remarkably augmented by the variable ‘thermal conductivity’ and variable ‘viscosity parameters’ which is the main contribution of this research. Due to changeable viscosity, reducing nature of velocity as well as the reducing nature of concentration of the nanoparticles near the ‘plate’ are observed. Due to Stefan's blowing parameter, fluid velocity augments but ‘temperature’ is observed to reduce for mounting values of Stefan's blowing parameter. 3.2 % reduction in skin-friction coefficient is noted when variable viscosity parameter reduces from -6 to -8. Moreover, 7.1 % reduction in heat transfer as well as mass transfer is noted when the variable thermal conductivity parameter rises from 0.2 to 0.4. The consequence of this inspection exposes a variation of exciting diversity which claims extra exploration of the present study.