Published October 2021 | Version v1
Journal article

Solar energy aspects of gyrotactic mixed bioconvection flow of nanofluid past a vertical thin moving needle influenced by variable Prandtl number

  • 1. College of Science, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000 (China)
  • 2. Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 44000 (Pakistan)
  • 3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Riphah International University I-14, Islamabad 44000 (Pakistan)
  • 4. Department of Studies and Research in Mathematics, Davangere University, Davangere, Karnataka (India)
  • 5. Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Islamabad, Sahiwal 57000 (Pakistan)
  • 6. CECOS University of IT & Emerging Sciences, Peshawar (Pakistan)
  • 7. Department of Mathematics, College of Sciences, King Khalid University, Abha 61413, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (United States)

Description

The current analysis deals with the nanofluid flow over a vertical thin needle having gyrotactic microorganisms. Further, the incompressible liquid is electrically conducted in the existence of magnetic field. The important effect of thermophoresis and Brownian motion has been involved in the model of nanofluid. The system of dimensionless form of ordinary differential equations (ODE's) are obtained by applying appropriate transformations to the formulated problem defined by the system of partial differential equations (PDE's). Later, these reduced ODE's are tackled numerically by using Runge–Kutta-based shooting process. Finally, keeping in view of physical significance of flow parameters, the graphical analysis for prominent parameters is portrayed and discussed in detail. The outcome exposed that the velocity gradient reduces for rising values of magnetic and buoyancy ratio parameter. The upsurge in Biot number and radiation parameter enhances the heat passage. The motile microorganisms density number improves for growing values of Lewis number and declines for improved values of Peclet number.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2021.111244

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.chaos.2021.111244;
PII
S0960077921005981;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
Journal Volume
151
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0960-0779

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