Thermophoresis and Brownian Motion Effects on Magnetohydrodynamics Electro-Osmotic Jeffrey Nanofluid Peristaltic Flow in Asymmetric Rotating Microchannel

Date
2019-03
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American Scientific Publishers
Abstract
This article investigates with the thermophoresis and Brownian motion effects on MHD electro-osmotic Jeffrey nanofluid peristaltic flow in an asymmetric microchannel. Well established large wavelength and small Reynolds number approximations are invoked. Numerical solutions have been evaluated for the stream function, nanofluid velocity, nanofluid temperature and nanoparticle phenomena. The computed results for nanofluid velocity, temperature, and concentration fields are utilized to determine the skin-friction, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number. The graphical results have been presented and discussed for various involved parameters. The novel features of nanofluids made them potentially significant in heat and mass transfer mechanism occurring in medical and industrial processes like microelectronics, pharmaceutical processes, hybrid engines, thermal management of vehicles, refrigerator, chiller, gas temperature reduction and so forth. These processes bear tendency to enhance thermal conductivity and the convective heat transfer more efficiently than base fluid. This unique aspect made nanofluids the topic of interest in recent time via different fluid flow models. The problem at hand is one such application of nanofluids in peristaltic flow through the asymmetric rotating microchannel.
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CITATION: Reddy, K. V., Reddy, M. G. & Makinde, O. D. 2019. Thermophoresis and Brownian Motion Effects on Magnetohydrodynamics Electro-Osmotic Jeffrey Nanofluid Peristaltic Flow in Asymmetric Rotating Microchannel. Journal of Nanofluids, 8(2):349-358. doi:10.1166/jon.2019.1581
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Keywords
Nanotechnology, Electro-osmosis, Fluid dynamics, Heat -- Transmission, Mass Transfer, Nanofluids, Heat transfer, Magnetohydrodynamics, Peristalsis, Rotational motion, Brownian motion processes, Nanoparticles, Thermodynamics
Citation
Reddy, K. V., Reddy, M. G. & Makinde, O. D. 2019. Thermophoresis and Brownian Motion Effects on Magnetohydrodynamics Electro-Osmotic Jeffrey Nanofluid Peristaltic Flow in Asymmetric Rotating Microchannel. Journal of Nanofluids, 8(2):349-358. doi:10.1166/jon.2019.1581