Journal
RESULTS IN PHYSICS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages 288-309Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rinp.2016.12.032
Keywords
Jeffrey nanofluid; AgNPs; MHD and Porosity; Rotating flow; Laplace transform technique
Funding
- Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) [4F713, 4F538, 06H67]
- Research Management Centre-UTM [4F713, 4F538, 06H67]
- Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR) at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah
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In this article, the influence of thermal radiation on unsteady magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) free convection flow of rotating Jeffrey nanofluid passing through a porous medium is studied. The silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are dispersed in the Kerosene Oil (KO) which is chosen as conventional base fluid. Appropriate dimensionless variables are used and the system of equations is transformed into dimensionless form. The resulting problem is solved using the Laplace transform technique. The impact of pertinent parameters including volume fraction phi, material parameters of Jeffrey fluid lambda(1), lambda, rotation parameter r, Hartmann number Ha, permeability parameter K, Grashof number Gr, Prandtl number Pr, radiation parameter Rd and dimensionless time t on velocity and temperature profiles are presented graphically with comprehensive discussions. It is observed that, the rotation parameter, due to the Coriolis force, tends to decrease the primary velocity but reverse effect is observed in the secondary velocity. It is also observed that, the Lorentz force retards the fluid flow for both primary and secondary velocities. The expressions for skin friction and Nusselt number are also evaluated for different values of emerging parameters. A comparative study with the existing published work is provided in order to verify the present results. An excellent agreement is found. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B. V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
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