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Thermally radioactive bioconvection flow of Carreau nanofluid with modified Cattaneo-Christov expressions and exponential space-based heat source

  • Umar Farooq
  • , Hassan Waqas
  • , M. Ijaz Khan
  • , Sami Ullah Khan
  • , Yu Ming Chu
  • , Seifedine Kadry
  • Government College University Faisalabad
  • Riphah International University
  • COMSATS University Islamabad
  • Huzhou University
  • Changsha University of Science and Technology
  • Beirut Arab University

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Abstract

The nanoparticles proved a motivating research area in the fourth generation of the world due to their extensive use in science and infrastructure, such as vehicle cooling, higher heat transfer rates in microchips, food manufacturing, biotechnology, biochemistry, transportation, metrology and nuclear reactors. Dispersing the nanoparticles within base fluid is a newly approach for implementations of heat transfer and biomedicine/bioengineering. The current determination is committed to explore the features of bioconvection in Carreau nanofluid flow under the influence of various thermal consequences. The flow is originated by a stretched cylinder. The characteristics of Cattaneo-Christov heat and mass flux are applied to examine the heat/mass transportation of nanofluid. The effects of thermal radiation and activation energy are also considered. The consequences of Brownian movement and thermophoresis features are analyzed by incorporating Buongiorno's nanofluid model. The governing partial differential equations are transmuted into the structure of nonlinear ordinary differential equations by introducing suitable transformation. The shooting technique is used to achieve the numerical simulations of nonlinear system. The physical impacts of prominent parameters on velocity, temperature distribution, concentration field and microorganisms profile are examined and captured graphically. The numerical outcomes against various flow quantities are also presented in tabular form. The results convey that a higher temperature profile is observed with larger values of thermal Biot number, exponential base sink parameter and thermal relaxation parameter while a decrement in temperature is noticed with increasing mixed convection parameter. The concentration profile shows an increasing trend with mass concentration parameter and concentration relaxation parameter. Moreover, the microorganism field decline with Peclet number and bioconvection Lewis number.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3073-3086
Number of pages14
JournalAlexandria Engineering Journal
Volume60
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2021
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

  • Activation energy
  • Carreau nanofluid
  • Cattaneo-Christov heat/mass flux
  • Shooting scheme
  • Thermal radiation

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