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APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS-ENGLISH EDITION
Volume 40, Issue 9, Pages 1269-1284Publisher
SHANGHAI UNIV
DOI: 10.1007/s10483-019-2517-9
Keywords
graphene-polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS); Maxwell fluid; differential transform method (DTM); thermal radiation; Bejan number; O351; 2; O361; O357; 4
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- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi [21/06/2015(i) EU-V]
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The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) graphene-polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) nanofluid flow between two squeezing parallel plates in the presence of thermal radiation effects is investigated. The energy efficiency of the system via the Bejan number is studied extensively. The governing partial differential equations are converted by using the similarity transformations into a set of coupled ordinary differential equations. The set of these converted equations is solved by using the differential transform method (DTM). The entropy generation in terms of the Bejan number, the coefficient of skin-friction, and the heat transfer rate is furthermore investigated under the effects of various physical parameters of interest. The present study shows that the Bejan number, the velocity and thermal profiles, and the rate of heat transfer decrease with a rise in the Deborah number De while the skin-friction coefficient increases. It is also observed that the entropy generation due to frictional forces is higher than that due to thermal effects. Thus, the study bears the potential application in powder technology as well as in biomedical engineering.
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