Newtonian heat and mass conditions impact in thermally radiated Maxwell nanofluid Darcy–Forchheimer flow with heat generation

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to elaborate the characteristics of magneto-Maxwell nanoliquid toward moving radiated surface. Flow analysis subject to Darcy–Forchheimer concept is studied. Newtonian heat/mass conditions and heat source aspects are taken into account for modeling. Apposite transformations are introduced for non-dimensionalization process.

Design/methodology/approach

Optimal homotopy analysis method is implemented to compute convergent solutions of nonlinear ordinary differential equations.

Findings

Temperature field increments when thermophoresis, heat generation and Brownian movement parameters are increased, whereas reverse situation is noticed for larger Prandtl number. The results also witness that concentration distribution has opposite characteristics for larger thermophoresis and Brownian movement parameters. Furthermore, the presented analysis reduces to traditional Darcy relation in the absence of local inertia coefficient.

Originality/value

As per the authors’ knowledge, no such analysis has been yet reported.

Citation

Waqas, M., Gulzar, M.M., Khan, W.A., Khan, M.I. and Khan, N.B. (2019), "Newtonian heat and mass conditions impact in thermally radiated Maxwell nanofluid Darcy–Forchheimer flow with heat generation", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 29 No. 8, pp. 2809-2821. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-11-2018-0695