Numerical study of an electrically conducting nanofluid flow past a vertical stretching Riga plate

Abstract

The heat and mass transfer through electrically conducting and mixed convective nanofluid flow across an elongating Riga plate is studied. Riga plate is an electromagnetic sheet, in which electrodes are assembled alternatively. The arrangement of Riga plate produces electromagnetic behavior in the fluid flow. In the current analysis, the influence of Arrhenius activation energy, viscous dissipation and heat source/sink over the surface of Riga sheet is considered. The heat and mass transfer are examined by convective boundary conditions and nanoparticles (NPs) zero-mass flux. The Brownian motion and thermophoretic diffusion of fluid molecules are applied via Buongiorno's approach. Von Karman's similarity approach is implemented to reset the modeled equations into the dimensionless form of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The system of ordinary differential equations is solved numerically via PCM (parametric continuation method). The fluid velocity, temperature field, and concentration gradients are analyzed by varying various flow parameters and graphically portrayed. The numerical results are validated by comparing them with the published studies. It can be resolved form the results that the flow rate decilnes with the effect of power index m , whereas enhances with the consequence of Hartmann number. The significance of thermophoresis term augments the temperature curve of the fluid.