Swimming of micro-organism over an oscillatory stretched surface filled with a magnetic third-grade nanofluid: An application of activation energy

Abstract

During the past few years, abundant involvement of nanoparticles in improving the thermal extrusion systems and energy resources attracted the attention of numerous scientists recently. The significance of nanofluid in terms of working liquid directed for the enhancement of solar energy and thermal extrusion performances. Therefore, the present analysis deals with the thermal performances of bioconvection flow with nanoparticles suspended in a non-Newtonian fluid. Considering that the flow has been induced due to periodically accelerated surface. The activation energy consequences are also employed in the concentration equation. The flow problem is initially formulated in the form of partial differential equations. The dimensionless variables are reported to renovate such equations in the dimensionless style, which are tackled analytically by employing the homotopy analysis method. The significance of various physical parameters is estimated for the relevant distribution of velocity, temperature, concentration, and motile micro-organisms. The dimensionless local Nusselt number, local Sherwood number, and motile density number are numerically iterated via flow parameters. A convergence analysis is also presented. The detected observation can involve theoretical significance in various engineering processes, bio-fuel cells, solar energy systems, and enhancement of extrusion systems.