Thermal Stratification Parameter Research Articles

Effect of Double Stratification on MHD Williamson Boundary Layer Flow and Heat Transfer across a Shrinking/Stretching Sheet Immersed in a Porous Medium

The present study aims to provide a mathematical model of the Williamson fluid flow via a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in the MHD boundary layer in the presence of a heat source, chemical reaction, and suction. This study is novel because it investigates the physical effects of thermal and solutal stratification on convective heat and mass transport using thermal radiation. The flow’s PDEs are numerically solved using the BVP4c approach and the pertinent similarity variables until a stable solution is found. Through visual analysis, the effects of dimensionless factors on temperature, velocity, and concentration profiles are examined. This encompasses the mass transfer rate, the heat transfer rate, and the coefficient of friction. The results of the present analysis are found to be consistent with those of previously published studies. The findings demonstrate that enhanced temperature and concentration profiles cause the Williamson, magnetic, and permeability parameters to rise in conjunction with a drop in the dimensionless velocity. In relation to temperature, the thermal stratification parameter exhibits the opposite tendency. Regarding the solutal stratification parameter, concentration profiles are seen to show the opposite trend. Lastly, the current work will have important implications for the removal of dust and viruses from viscoelastic fluid in bioengineering, the medical sciences, and medical equipment.

Thermal stratification and heat generation/absorption impacts on stagnation point flow of MHD UCM fluid through a permeable medium

We investigated two dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stagnation point upper-convected Maxwell (UCM) fluid flow through a stretch sheet in a porous medium having the effects of heat generation/absorption and thermal stratification. Utilizing suitable similarity transformations, the governing partial differential equations (PDEs) of the fluid flow and heat transfer phenomena are converted to nonlinear dimensionless ordinary differential equations (ODEs). We numerically solved these nonlinear ODEs and compared our results of skin friction and Nusselt number with previous work which demonstrated accuracy of the presented solutions. We also illustrated the graphical behavior of dependent variables that is of the velocity and temperature fields versus the key parameters involved. It showed that velocity field decreases for Deborah number, porosity and magnetic parameters. The temperature of the fluid showed an increasing behavior for Deborah number, magnetic, porosity, and heat source/sink parameters while declining for thermal stratification and velocity ratio parameters.

A Numerical Investigation of the MHD Ternary Hybrid Nanofluid (Cu-Al2O3-TiO2/H2O) Past a Vertically Stretching Cylinder in a Porous Medium with Thermal Stratification

This study focuses on examining the impact of thermal stratification on the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) flow of water-based nano, hybrid, and ternary hybrid nanofluids past a vertically stretching cylinder in a porous medium. The nanoparticles Cu, Al2O3, and TiO2 are suspended in a base fluid H2O, leading to the formation of a ternary hybrid nanofluid Cu-Al2O3-TiO2 /H2O. The numerical results are calculated with the 3-stage Lobatto IIIa approach, specifically implemented by Bvp4c in MATLAB. The impacts of various parameters are visually depicted through graphs and quantitatively represented in tables. The velocity and temperature of the ternary hybrid nanofluid are lowered by the thermal stratification parameter compared to when there is no stratification. The ternary hybrid nanofluid has a higher heat transfer rate than the hybrid nanofluid, and the hybrid nanofluid has a higher heat transfer rate than ordinary nanofluids.

Sensitivity analysis and response surface methodology for entropy optimization in the exponentially stretching stratified curved sheet for Casson–Williamson nanofluid flow

The current study explains the parametric entropy optimization by using response surface methodology and sensitivity analysis. It also reveals the effects of thermal radiation and exponential heating on Casson–Williamson nanofluid flow over an exponentially stretching curved sheet. The Darcy–Forchheimer model is used and stratification, Navier slip, and suction-injection are used as the boundary constraints. The 4–5th ordered Runge–Kutta Fehlberg approach is enacted to exhibit the modeled flow. Response surface methodology is used to build the statistical design for the Weissenberg number, magnetic parameter, and Brinkmann number. The thermal stratification parameter, according to the findings, lowers temperature. Entropy grows as Brinkmann number and magnetic parameter increase. When the thermal buoyancy factor assumes the minimum value, little shear stress is seen for high Forchheimer number. The squared co-efficient is confirmed to be 99.99 %. The Pareto chart confirms that point 2.2 is the important point. Entropy surface diagrams in three dimensions demonstrate that with high magnetic parameter, high Brinkman number levels and low Weissenberg number levels, high entropy is obtained. For low and medium levels of magnetic parameter, Weissenberg number exhibits positive sensitivity, whereas for high and medium levels of magnetic parameter, it exhibits negative sensitivity.

Thermal energy transport in stratified 2D-Casson fluid flow over an inclined exponentially stretching surface with Soret/Dufour effects: Numerical simulations and applications in energy harvesting

Significance: The thermal energy transfer in nanofluid flow over an exponentially stretching surface has crucial practical configurations in various industrial processes, and it has potential applications in heat exchangers, chemical engineering, energy harvesting, and material processing. Purpose: This study is devoted to exploring the features of free convection in the thermally stratified, unsteady flow of Casson fluid over an inclined, exponentially stretching surface. Moreover, the implications of nonlinear thermal radiation, activation energy, and thermal/salute stratification effects are examined over the thermal energy transport distributions. Diffusion-thermo and thermo diffusion impressions are also taken into consideration. Methodology: By introducing reasonable transformations, partial differential equations are altered into ordinary differential equations. A nonlinear system of differential equations is solved numerically by employing the Midrich numerical technique. Findings: The impacts of diverse fluid parameters like the Soret/Dufour number, temperature difference parameter, radiation parameter, thermal/salute stratification parameter, magnetic parameter, and Prandtal number are assessed and depicted in plots by explaining the physical justifications of each parameter. Also, numerical values of sink friction and local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are computed and examined for different values of pertinent variables involved in the problems. It is found that the rate of thermal energy transport is significantly enhanced by the larger estimation of the radiation parameter. Furthermore, it is perceived that the escalation in the temperature ratio constant leads to increased thermal convection in the fluid, while the larger thermal stratification constant decays the rate of heat transport in the fluid. Additionally, the rate of thermal transport is de-escalated due to the escalation in the intensity of thermal stratification parameter.

New Analytical and Numerical Solutions for Squeezing Flow between Parallel Plates under Slip

In this article, the effects of physical flow parameters on squeezed fluid between parallel plates are explored through the Darcy porous channel when fluid is moving as a result of the upper plate being squeezed towards the stretchable lower plate, such as velocity slip, thermal slip, solutal slip, thermal stratification parameter, solutal stratification parameter, squeezing number, Darcy number, Prandtl number, and Schmidt number. The governing equations are transformed into a nonlinear ordinary differential equation using the appropriate similarity transformations. The resulting equations are solved by using the perturbation iteration method (PIT) to produce a convergent analytical solution with high accuracy. The phenomena of the squeezing fluid as the plates are moving apart and when they are coming together are illustrated using the resulting analytical solutions. Plots are used to discuss the significant effects of physical parameters on velocity, temperature, and fluid concentration profiles. The skin friction coefficient and Nusselt Sherwood values have graphical interpretations that are listed. For strong velocity slip parameters, the results demonstrate the existence of a minimum velocity profile close to the plate and a growing velocity profile distant from the plate. Additionally, as the slip effects rise, the fluid temperature and concentration both considerably drop. The results of the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method (RK4M) and the presented analytical solutions provided are in excellent agreement.

A numerical study of thermal and diffusion effects on MHD Jeffrey fluid flow over a porous stretching sheet with activation energy

The primary aim of this research work is to develop a mathematical model for the two-dimensional steady incompressible flow of a Jeffrey fluid over a vertical stretching sheet immersed in a Darcy porous medium. The combined effects of Soret and Dufour numbers, activation energy, viscous dissipation, thermal radiation, mixed convection, and Joule heating are included in the energy and concentration equations within this model. Using appropriate similarity variable transformations, the governing partial differential equations were altered into nonlinear ordinary differential equations and then solved numerically using the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method along with the shooting technique. The impact of various physical parameters on concentration, velocity, and temperature profiles is deployed through graphs. The velocity increased with a gradual increment in the values of the viscous ratio, thermal, and solutal stratification parameters, whereas the reverse trend was noticed for the magnetic strength. The temperature diminishes as the Prandtl number increases, whereas the opposite scenario exists for Eckert and Dufor numbers and radiation. The fluid concentration rises for a monotonic increment of the Soret number, while it reduces as the Schmidt number, activation energy, and reaction constraint escalate. The amplification of skin friction is observed with an increase in magnetic field strength, while it decreases with an increasing viscous ratio factor. The Nusselt number decreases as radiation increases and the Eckert number rises, but the opposite scenario occurs with increases in the Prandtl number. The Sherwood number is heightened by an increase in the Schmidt number, reaction, and activation energy factors. Moreover, the numerical values of skin friction and the Nusselt number are compared with the previously published work, demonstrating excellent agreement between the results.

Computational analysis of magnetized Casson liquid stretching flow adjacent to a porous medium with Joule heating, stratification, multiple slip and chemical reaction aspects

This article aims to investigate the characteristics of thermo-solutal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) non-Newtonian smart coating boundary layer flow of a stretching substrate adjacent to a porous medium, considering the influence of chemical reactions and thermal radiation subject to a transverse static magnetic field. A non-Darcy drag force model is deployed to capture both Darcy bulk drag and inertial Forchheimer (quadratic) drag effects. A diffusion flux model is deployed for radiative heat transfer. The Casson viscoplastic model has been utilized to simulate rheological characteristics. Due to polymeric slip effects, three slip phenomena are included at the wall (hydrodynamic, thermal and concentration) in the formulation. Furthermore, viscous dissipation and Ohmic heating (Joule dissipation) are also included. Robust scaling similarity variables are deployed to transform the governing partial differential equations into ordinary differential equations. Subsequently, the emerging dimensionless coupled nonlinear boundary value problem is solved utilizing the Bvp4c method in MATLAB version 2022. This numerical approach allows for a logical parametric examination of all key control parameters on the transport phenomena, enabling a comprehensive understanding of the system behavior. Validation with previous studies is included. Detailed graphical and tabular computations are included for velocity, temperature, concentration, skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number, for the influence of Darcian parameter, Forchheimer inertial parameter, mixed convection, velocity (momentum) slip, magnetic number, Casson parameter, nonlinear thermal convection parameter, nonlinear concentration convection parameter, radiation parameter, thermal stratification parameter, Prandtl number, heat source/sink parameter, Eckert number, thermal slip parameter, Schmidt number, chemical reaction, solutal stratification parameter and solutal slip parameter. Detailed interpretation of the physics associated with these multiple effects is included. The simulations provide further insight into the transport characteristics of electromagnetic viscoplastic coating material manufacturing.

Thermophoresis and Brownian motion effect on hybrid nanoparticles flow over a wedge surface by considering double stratification effects

This research looks at the flow of hybrid nanoparticles across a wedge-shaped surface. In addition to this, Brownian motion and thermal stratification are used to model how heat moves through a system. The mass expression also deals with the thermophoresis effect and mass stratification. The governing equations involve the continuity, momentum, energy, and mass equation of hybrid nanofluids that are modified into ODE's by applying similarity transformation. The solutions are obtained from two well-known numerical routines, RKF-45 and the profiles embodying f ′ ( η ) , θ ( η ) , and P ( η ) are interpreted under the influence of several physical parameters. The results showed that as the Prandtl number goes up, temperature profiles of fluid flow go down, and as Brownian motion factors go up, temperature profiles go up. It is found that the fluid’s thermal flow rate slows down as the Brownian motion and thermophoretic elements get stronger. On the other hand, the thermal flow rate of fluid goes up as the thermal stratification parameter goes up.

Double layered combined convective heated flow of Eyring-Powell fluid across an elevated stretched cylinder using intelligent computing approach

This study investigates the possessions of a dual stratified common on the diverse convection barrier layer discharge of an Eyring-Powell fluid (CBLFEPL) induced by an prone extensive barrel. The temperature and concentration at the exterior of the barrel are assumed to be larger than the moving fluid. To solve the resulting flow equations, an brilliant numerical established aggregating solver is employed using the Levenberg-Marquardt neural network scheme (LMNNS). The governing equations of partial differential are converted into interconnected nonlinear ordinary differential equations using appropriate transformations. First, a dataset is generated for two distinct cases, one with a zero curvature parameter (plate) and the other with a non-zero curvature parameter (cylinder). The behaviors of skin-friction coefficient, Sherwood number and Nusselt number are presented over chart obtained using the BVP4C technique. Subsequently, an intelligent computing algorithm nftool, is utilized for training, validation, and testing steps to approximate solutions for various cases. The designed solver, LMNNS, is applied to solve the CBLFEPL problem through regression, mean squared error (MSE), histogram studies, and gradient analysis. The study of double-layered combined convection flow of Eyring-Powell fluid around an elevated stretched cylinder provides insights into heat and mass transfer characteristics, crucial for applications in engineering and fluid dynamics. This study aims to contribute insights that can be applied to engineering and fluid dynamics, aiding in the optimization of relevant processes and applications. The research methodology involves employing numerical technique, three-stage Lobatto IIIa formula, to solve the governing equations of the double-layered combined convection flow of Eyring-Powell fluid around an elevated stretched cylinder, while systematically varying key parameters to analyze their impact on heat and mass transfer phenomena. The speed of the fluid experiences a notable rise with higher values of curvature parameter K, fluid parameter M, mixed convection parameter λm, and the ratio of buoyancy forces N. Conversely, the velocity profile exhibits a contrasting behavior concerning the thermal stratification parameter ϵ1, solutal stratification parameter ϵ2, and an inclination angle α.

MULTI-STRATIFIED EFFECTS ON STAGNATION POINT NANOFLUID FLOW WITH GYROTACTIC MICROORGANISMS OVER POROUS MEDIUM

The present investigation focuses on the intricate interplay of multiple stratified effects on the stagnation point nanofluid flow with gyrotactic microorganisms across a porous medium. The study encompasses a comprehensive numerical analysis, examining the impacts of varying parameters, such as stratification parameters, porosity, etc., on the flow characteristics. The gyrotactic behavior of microorganisms further adds complexity to the analysis. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the combined effects and their consequences on heat and mass transfer within the system. Such insights hold relevance in various engineering and environmental applications, including biofuel production and water treatment processes. Numerical solutions are obtained via the fifth order Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method with shooting technique. A graphical view of the velocity, temperature, concentration, and density of the microorganism-profile-concerned parameters are discussed in detail. A comparison with the local Nusselt number for distinct values of the Prandtl number reveal the validity of current results. The temperature, concentration, and density of microorganism fields lessened with enhancement of thermal, solutal, and motile stratification parameters. Also, concentration field boosts with enhancement of thermophoresis and Brownian motion parameter.

Darcy-Forchheimer flow with viscoelastic Cattaneo-Christov heat flux model and nonlinear thermal radiation: A numerical investigation

Jeffrey fluids have found vast applications in industries and engineering along with their rheological properties. This article investigates the heat and fluid flow within the frame of the nonlinear thermal radiation and non-Fourier heat flux model on Jeffrey nanofluid over an inclined permeable stretched cylinder through saturated porous medium. In addition, non-uniform heat generation/absorption, nonlinear thermal radiation, thermal stratification, and homogeneous/heterogeneous reactions are accounted. Porous medium is characterized through nonlinear Darcy-Forchheimer relation. Shooting method is employed in conjunction with Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method to solve nonlinear ODEs. The effects of flow variables involved in velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are deliberated through graphs. It is evident from obtained results that the temperature field rises with thermal radiation parameter and space dependent heat generation/absorption parameter. Local Nusselt number has same enhancing attitude towards the thermal relaxation time (0.7443≤−Nˆuz(Rez)−12≤0.7857 for0.2≤δe≤0.6) and thermal stratification parameter (0.7239≤−Nˆuz(Rez)−12≤0.7689for0.2≤S1≤0.6). The exactness of the solution and F′(ξ) variation is verified by comparison with already published literature. The computed results are of great interest in cooling of nuclear reactors. Viscoelastic stuff are generally employed in mats, car shields, computer hard drives and other protective paddings. Synthetic materials can work as the lubricant for an osteoarthritic joint.

Unsteady Boundary Layer Heat and Mass Transfer Flow of Nanofluid Over Porous Stretching Sheet with Non-Uniform Heat Generation/Absorption and Double Stratification

The influence of thermal radiation and stratification process on unsteady MHD flow over stretching sheet embedded in “nanofluid saturated porous medium with non-uniform heat source/sink was analyzed numerically in the present analysis. Proper similarity transformations reduce the nonlinear partial differential equations into ordinary differential equations and are solved numerically by using Galerkin Finite element method. Impact of different parameters, such as, magnetic parameter (0.1–1.0), buoyancy ratio parameter (0.1–4.5), radiation parameter (0.5–1.7), Rayleigh number (0.1–0.7), thermophoresis parameter (0.4–1.5), thermal stratification parameter (0.01–1.0), Brownian motion parameter (1.0–2.0), solutal stratification parameter (0.01–1.0), unsteadiness parameter (0.1–0.4), space–dependent (-0.5–0.4) and temperature dependent (-0.5–0.2) heat source/sink parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration profiles is calculated and are illustrated graphically. Skin-friction coefficient, Nusselt and Sherwood number are calculated and the results are shown in tabular form. It is found that the thermal stratification parameter deteriorates the temperature of the fluid. The concentration of the fluid diminishes with rising values of solutal stratification parameter. The thermal boundary layer thickness elevates” with higher values of Brownian motion and thermophoresis parameters.

Stratification and Radiation of Heat in Hybrid Gold-Graphene/Ethylene Glycol Nanofluid Flows Past a Leaning Cylinder

Hybrid gold-graphene/ethylene-glycol (EG) nanofluid past a permeable leaning cylinder is devoted in the current investigation under the effect of thermal radiation and stratification. The governing partial differential equations are reformulated into nonlinear ordinary differential equations by implementing similarity terms. A shooting approach is elected to reformulate the equations into a boundary value problem which is determined by applying a bvp4c code in MATLAB. The effects of selected parameters regarding the recent model on dimensionless velocity and temperature disseminations, reduced skin friction coefficient and reduced Nusselt number are analyzed and presented in graphs and tables. It is perceived that by rising the value of the thermal stratification and radiation parameter, the reduced Nusselt number for the preferred mono and hybrid nanofluids will be declined. The reduced Nusselt number is reported to be the highest value when considering hybrid gold (ϕ s1=0.02)-graphene (ϕ s2 = 0.04)/EG nanofluid.

Dual Stratification Effects on Mixed Convective Electro-magnetohydrodynamic Flow over a Stretching Plate with Multiple Slips and Cross Diffusion

This paper analyzed the effects of dual stratification on mixed convective electro-magnetohydrodynamic flow over stretching plates with multiple slips. With the aid of the similarity transformation technique were, the governing boundary equations, that were partial differential equations, were changed to a couple of ordinary differential equations and then solved with fourth order Runge Kutta method and Newton’s Raphson shooting techniques. It was observed that the magnetic field, Buoyancy ratio, permeability, momentum slip parameters, Dufour, Soret and Brinkmann numbers made the thermal boundary layer thickness to increase but the solutal stratification, electric field, chemical reaction, solutal slip, suction, thermal slip and thermal stratification parameters, Prandtl, Richardson and Lewis number decreased the thickness of the thermal boundary layer. The Buoyancy ratio, permeability, momentum slip, thermal slip and thermal stratification parameters and Soret number enhanced the solutal boundary layer thickness.

Inclined magnetic force impact on cross nanoliquid flowing with widening shallow and heat generating by using artificial neural network (ANN)

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have a wide range of applications in science and technology. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) widely utilized in image and speech recognition, neural language processing, drug discovery, genomics and bioinformatics, Robotics and control systems, material science and energy and power system. Due to the above applications, the main focus of this article is to scrutinize the impact of inclined magnetic field on a cross nanofluid flow with slip velocity and convective boundary conditions over a variable porosity. Gold (Au) nanoparticles are suspended in base liquid blood. Thermal stratification and heat generation with joule heating impact is taken in the energy equation in order to see the heat transfer. To transform the non-linear partial differential equations (PDE's) into non-linear ordinary differential equations (ODE's) utilized the von-Karman similarity transformation parameters. For the solutions of the non-linear ODE's, the 4th- order Runge-Kutta numerical method is employed. A dataset for the employed neural network back propagated Levenberg-Marquard scheme (NN-BLMS) is generated for various estimations of the embedded parameters like Weissenberg number, magnetic parameter, angle of inclination, porosity and permeability parameters, thermal stratification parameter by utilizing the 4th-order Runge-Kutta numerical scheme. The testing, validation and training methods of NN-BLMS are utilized to scrutinize the approximate solution of cross nanofluid with slip velocity and convective boundary conditions. The performance of the proposed NN-BLMS to successfully solved the cross nanofluid model is endorsed via mean squared error, error histogram and regression analysis. Streamlines and heatlines are plotted for different parameters including in velocity and temperature equations.

Investigating the stagnation point and Darcy-Forchheimer flow of heat and mass transport with thermal radiation and activation energy

In this paper, the stagnation point and boundary layer flow of two-dimension Williamson fluid flow near a stretching cylinder along porous medium is examined. The transference analysis of mass and heat in the occurrence of thermal radiation, heat absorption and activation energy are investigated. The double stratification is implemented to analyze its impact on the thermal and solutal fields. The main leading equations are solved by applying the boundary layer approximation. By assuming the similarity variables, the main equations of the Williamson fluid are transformed into ordinary differential equations. In order to solve numerical solutions, a well-known numerical technique is adopted on MATLAB software namely ‘Bvp4c’. The fluid's velocity experiences an increment with changes in the buoyancy parameter, curvature parameter and the Williamson fluid coefficient, whereas the velocity distribution diminishes due to variations in the porosity parameter, stretching parameter and Forchheimer number. The temperature in a given region decreases due to the influence of both the Prandtl number and curvature parameter. The fluid temperature exhibits incrementing outputs in the presence of changes in the curvature parameter, thermal stratification parameter and heat generation. The solutal stratification parameter, temperature difference parameter and Schmidt number lead to a reduction in the fluid concentration. The concentration profile increases under the influence of curvature parameter. The validation of numerical finding is also included here which show similar trend with published work.

Bioconvection flow of Prandtl–Eyring nanofluid in the presence of gyrotactic microorganisms

AbstractThis work presents a theoretical numerical study of the bioconvection flow of Prandtl–Eyring nanofluid through a stretching cylinder with gyrotactic microorganisms. The mathematical model developed also incorporated the inclined magnetic field and heat generation effects. Further, stratification conditions are considered at the boundary of the stretched cylinder. The described flow problem conducting coupled high‐order partial differential equations (PDEs) is first reduced to the nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by introducing suitable mathematical transformations. The resulting highly nonlinear flow equations are treated numerically by applying the shooting method. A comparison of the adapted method with previously reported data is also made to validate the presented results. The comparisons are in excellent agreement. The individual effect of controlling flow parameters/numbers on the flow profiles and physical quantities of engineering interest are represented graphically with physical descriptions. The significant results of the present analysis revealed that a rise in bioconvection Rayleigh number, thermal Grashof number, and angle of inclination boosts the velocity profile. The study shows that thermal stratification, mass stratification, and motile density stratification parameters diminish the temperature, concentration, and microorganism profiles, respectively. The nondimensional Sherwood number is decelerated significantly by thermophoresis and mass stratification parameters.

Stability analysis of stratified radiative non-Newtonian Casson nanofluid flow past on stretching/shrinking sheet using two-phase model

An incompressible steady-state 2D (two-dimensional) stratified boundary-driven Casson nanofluid flowing over the stretched/shrinked surface under buoyancy, magnetic and radiative effects is considered. The two-phase Buongiorno model is adopted to express the behavior of nanomaterial with the stratified boundary conditions. A system of nonlinear ODEs (ordinary differential equations) is extracted from the modeled PDEs (partial differential equations) by using the similarity transformations. The shooting scheme is adapted to execute the obtained equations numerically. The achieved results indicate the duality in the solutions at various ranges of the specified constraints like as suction, shrinking or stretching. The stability analysis is done to check the feasibility of solutions by BVP4c in Matlab. It is achieved that an increment in suction constraint enhanced the skin friction for shrinking case. The temperature curves are decreased with an improvement in Casson, suction, buoyancy and stratification parameters. The nanoparticles concentration reduced against the higher Casson, Brownian motion, suction, thermal and solutal stratification parameters. On other hand, an increment in the thermophoresis increases nanoparticles concentration profile.

A stratified flow of a non-Newtonian Casson fluid comprising microorganisms on a stretching sheet with activation energy

A stratified flow may be seen regularly in a number of significant industrial operations. For instance, the stratified flow regime is typically used by gas-condensate pipelines. Clearly, only a limited set of working situations for which this flow arrangement is stable allow for the achievement of the stratified two-phase flow zone. In this paper, the authors are considered the laminar, steady and incompressible magnetohydrodynamic flow of a non-Newtonian Casson fluid flow past a stratified extending sheet. The features of bio-convection, Brownian motion, thermal radiation thermophoresis, heat source, and chemically reactive activation energy have been employed. The set of equations administered flow of fluid is converted into ordinary differential equation by suitable variables. A semi-analytical investigation of the present analysis is performed with homotopy analysis method. Endorsement of the current results with previous results is also investigated. The outcomes showed that the velocity distribution of the fluid flow lessens with higher Casson and magnetic factors. The temperature profiles of fluid flow shrinkage as the Prandtl number and Casson factor increase and enlarges with higher values of thermal radiation, magnetic, and Brownian motion factors. It is found that the growing thermophoretic and Brownian motion factors reduce the rate of thermal flow of the Casson fluid flow. In contrast, the increasing thermal stratification parameter increases the thermal flow rate of fluid.