A study for steady nanofluid flow between parallel plates

Abstract

Purpose

In this paper, the authors study the behavior of heat and mass transfer between parallel plates of a steady nanofluid flow in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. In the model of nanofluids, the essential effect of thermophoresis and Brownian motion has been encompassed.

Design/methodology/approach

The variation of parameters method has been exploited to solve the differential equations of nanofluid model. The legitimacy of the variation of parameters method has been corroborated by a comparison of foregoing works by many authors on viscous fluid.

Findings

An analysis of the model is performed for different parameters, namely, viscosity parameter, Brownian parameter, thermophoretic parameter and magnetic parameter.

Originality/value

The variation of parameters method proves to be very effective in solving nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations which frequently arise in fluid mechanics.

Citation

Mohyud-din, S.T., Asad Iqbal, M. and Shakeel, M. (2017), "A study for steady nanofluid flow between parallel plates", Engineering Computations, Vol. 34 No. 8, pp. 2514-2527. https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-04-2017-0142