Theoretical investigation of MHD peristalsis of non‐Newtonian nanofluid flow under the impacts of temperature‐dependent thermal conductivity: Application to biomedical engineering

Abstract

AbstractNanofluids have the tendency to improve thermal characteristics in a broader context, such as in medical processes, industrial cooling applications, the transportation industry, hybrid engines, gas temperature reduction, microelectromechanical systems, refrigerators, nuclear reactors, vehicle temperature control, pharmaceutical processes, thermal management of vehicles, microelectronics, and chillers, etc. Therefore, present study investigates the effects of a two‐dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) peristalsis of the Carreau–Yasuda nanofluid through conservation principles of energy, concentration, mass, and momentum, which is motivated by recent advances in biological engineering. The entire system is coupled through viscous dissipation, Joule heating, a heat sink/source, Brownian diffusion, a radially magnetic field, thermophoresis motion, and slip conditions in a curved geometry. Lubrication theory is employed in order to simplify governing equations. Resulting systems are nonlinear coupled differential equations whose exact solutions are difficult to obtain, therefore, numerical solutions are obtained through NDSolve in Mathematica. The key features of peristaltic movement and rates of heat transfer are disseminated in detail via graphical representations for variation of various physical parameters. According to the findings, for greater values of the Hartman number, temperature increases, and the velocity decreases. The validity of these results has been verified using the existing published articles of Hayat et al. (2018).