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Melting Heat in Radiative Flow of Carbon Nanotubes with Homogeneous-Heterogeneous Reactions

  • Tasawar Hayat
  • , Khursheed Muhammad
  • , Taseer Muhammad
  • , Ahmed Alsaedi
  • Quaid-I-Azam University
  • Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University
  • Government College Women University Sialkot

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Abstract

The present article provides mathematical modeling for melting heat and thermal radiation in stagnation-point flow of carbon nanotubes towards a nonlinear stretchable surface of variable thickness. The process of homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions is considered. Diffusion coefficients are considered equal for both reactant and autocatalyst. Water and gasoline oil are taken as base fluids. The conversion of partial differential system to ordinary differential system is done by suitable transformations. Optimal homotopy technique is employed for the solutions development of velocity, temperature, concentration, skin friction and local Nusselt number. Graphical results for various values of pertinent parameters are displayed and discussed. Our results indicate that the skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number are enhanced for larger values of nanoparticles volume fraction.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)441-448
Number of pages8
JournalCommunications in Theoretical Physics
Volume69
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • base fluids (water and gasoline oil)
  • carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs and MWCNTs)
  • homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions
  • melting heat transfer
  • stagnation-point flow
  • thermal radiation

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