FORCED CONVECTION BOUNDARY LAYER MHD FLOW OF NANOFLUID OVER A PERMEABLE STRETCHING PLATE WITH VISCOUS DISSIPATION

Abstract

Forced convection boundary layer magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a nanofluid over a permeable stretching plate is studied in this paper. The effects of suction-injection and viscous dissi1pation are taken into account. The nanofluid model includes Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects. The governing momentum, energy and nanofluid solid volume fraction equations are solved numerically using an implicit finite difference scheme known as Keller-box method and the results are compared with available numerical data. The results for the dimensionless velocity, dimensionless temperature, dimensionless nanofluid solid volume fraction, reduced Nusselt and reduced Sherwood numbers are presented illustrating the effects of magnetic parameter, suction-injection parameter, Brownian motion parameter, thermophoresis parameter, Prandtl number, Eckert number and Lewis number.

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Dates

  • Submission Date2012-04-03
  • Revision Date2013-02-05
  • Acceptance Date2013-05-05
  • Online Date2013-06-01

DOI Reference

10.2298/TSCI120403049H

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