Influence of non-linear radiation, Joule heating and viscous dissipation on the boundary layer flow of MHD nanofluid flow over a thin moving needle
Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures
ISSN: 1573-6105
Article publication date: 24 September 2019
Issue publication date: 15 January 2020
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of non-linear thermal radiation, Joule heating and viscous dissipation on the mixed convection boundary layer flow of MHD nanofluid flow over a thin moving needle.
Design/methodology/approach
The equations directing the flow are reduced into ODEs by implementing similarity transformation. The Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg method with a shooting technique was implemented.
Findings
Numerical outcomes for the coefficient of skin friction and the rate of heat transfer are tabulated and discussed. Also, the boundary layer thicknesses for flow and temperature fields are addressed with the aid of graphs.
Originality/value
Till now, no numerical study investigated the combined influence of Joule heating, non-linear thermal radiation and viscous dissipation on the mixed convective MHD flow of silver-water nanofluid flow past a thin moving needle. The numerical results for existing work are new and their novelty verified by comparing them with the work published earlier.
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Citation
Upreti, H. and Kumar, M. (2020), "Influence of non-linear radiation, Joule heating and viscous dissipation on the boundary layer flow of MHD nanofluid flow over a thin moving needle", Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 208-224. https://doi.org/10.1108/MMMS-05-2019-0097
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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