THERMO-DIFFUSION AND DIFFUSO-THERMO EFFECTS ON MHD SQUEEZING FLOW BETWEEN PARALLEL DISKS

Abstract

In this article, Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) squeezing flow between two parallel disks is considered. The upper disk is taken to be solid and the lower one is permeable. Soret and Dufour effects are measured to explore the thermal-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects. Governing PDEs are converted into system of ODEs with the support of suitable similarity transforms. Homotopy analysis method (HAM) has been employed to obtain the expressions for velocity, temperature and concentration profiles. Effects of different emerging parameters such as squeezing number [Formula: see text], Hartman number [Formula: see text], Prandtl number Pr, Eckert number Ec, dimensionless length [Formula: see text] and Schmidt number Sc on the flow are also discussed with the help of graphs for velocity, temperature and concentration. The local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers along with convergence of the series solutions are presented with the help of graphs. From the results obtained, we observed that the physical quantities like skin friction coefficient increases with increasing value of Hartmann number [Formula: see text] in the blowing case [Formula: see text] whereas a fall is observed in the suction case [Formula: see text]. However, the rate of heat transfer at upper wall increases with increasing values of Dufour number Du and Soret number Sr for both the suction [Formula: see text] and blowing flow [Formula: see text], whereas, for the larger values of Dufour number Du and smaller values of Soret number Sr, a rapid fall is observed in Sherwood number Sh for both the suction [Formula: see text] and blowing [Formula: see text] cases. A numerical solution is obtained by employing Runge–Kutta method of order four (RK-4) to check the validity and reliability of the developed algorithm. A well agreement is found between both the solutions.