Pulsating hydromagnetic flow of Casson fluid in a vertical channel filled with non-Darcian porous medium

This paper analyzes the Joule heating, Dufour number, and Soret number effects on hydromagnetic pulsatile flow of a Casson fluid in a vertical channel filled with a non-Darcian porous medium. The governing partial differential equations (PDEs) of the Casson fluid flow are transformed to ordinary differential equations (ODEs) using perturbation technique and solved by employing shooting method with Runge–Kutta (R–K) fourth-order technique using MATHEMATICA function NDSolve. The influence of Forchheimer number, Casson fluid parameter, Dufour number, radiation parameter, and Soret number on flow variables has been studied and the numerical results obtained are presented. The results reveal that the velocity rises with the rise of Darcy number, whereas it decreases for a given rise in the Forchheimer number. Furthermore, the temperature distribution enhances by increasing the Dufour number.     

MHD non-Darcian free convection from a vertical wavy surface embedded in porous media in the presence of Soret and Dufour effect

The objective of this paper is to examine the combined effect of spatially stationary surface waves and the presence of fluid inertia on the free convection along a heated vertical wavy surface embedded in an electrically conducting fluid saturated porous medium, subject to the diffusion-thermo (Dufour), thermo-diffusion (Soret) and magnetic field effects. Diffusion-thermo implies that the heat transfer is induced by concentration gradient, and thermo-diffusion implies that the mass diffusion is induced by thermal gradient. The boundary-layer regime is considered where the Darcy–Rayleigh number is very large. A suitable coordinate transformation was considered to reduce the governing boundary-layer equations into non-similar form. The resulting nonlinear, coupled differential equations were solved numerically employing the Runge–Kutta algorithm with shooting iteration technique. Dimensionless velocity, temperature, concentration distributions, as well as local Nusselt number and Sherwood number are presented graphically for various values of Dufour number D_u, Soret number S_r, Buoyancy ratio N, amplitude of the wavy surface a, Lewis number Le, Grashof number Gr, and magnetic field effect M_g.     

Thermal-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects on combined heat and mass transfer of a steady MHD convective and slip flow due to a rotating disk with viscous dissipation and Ohmic heating

Thermo-diffusion (Soret effect) and diffusion-thermo (Dufour effect) effects on combined heat and mass transfer of a steady hydromagnetic convective and slip flow due to a rotating disk in the presence of viscous dissipation and Ohmic heating is investigated. The partial differential equations governing the problem under consideration have been transformed by a similarity transformation into a system of ordinary differential equations which are solved numerically by applying the shooting method. For fluids of medium molecular weight (H₂, air), profiles of the dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration distributions are shown graphically for various values of slip parameter γ, magnetic field parameter M, Eckert Ec, Schmidt Sc, Dufour Du and Soret Sr numbers. Finally, numerical values of physical quantities, such as the local skin friction coefficient, the local Nusselt number and the local Sherwood number are presented in tabular form.     

Numerical study of chemical reaction and heat transfer of MHD slip flow with Joule heating and Soret–Dufour effect over an exponentially stretching sheet

A study of Soret–Dufour effects along with chemical reaction, viscous dissipation combining on MHD Joule heating for viscous incompressible flow is presented. It is assumed that fluid is flowing past an angled stretching sheet saturated in porous means. The slip conditions of velocity, concentration, and temperature are accounted for at the boundary. The mathematical expression of the problem contains highly nonlinear interconnected partial differential equations. To convert governing equations into ordinary differential equations, appropriate similarity transformations were utilized. These differential equations with boundary constraints are resolved by homotopy analysis method. Expression for velocity, concentration, and temperature are derived in the form of series. Effects of numerous physical parameters, for example, Schmidt number, Soret number, buoyancy ratio parameter, slip parameter, and so forth, on various flow characteristics are presented through graphs. Numerous values of velocity, concentration, and temperature gradient are tabulated against different parameters. Results show that the fluid velocity increases by enhancing the Soret number, Dufour number, or permeability parameter. The fluid's concentration rises as the Soret number increases, while it falls as the Dufour number, chemical reaction parameter, or permeability parameter increases.     

Influences of Soret and Dufour numbers on mixed convective and chemically reactive Casson fluids flow towards an inclined flat plate

The purpose of this study is to examine the magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection Casson fluid flow over an inclined flat plate along with the heat source/sink. The present flow problem is considered under the assumption of the chemical reaction and thermal radiation impacts along with heat and mass transport. The leading nonlinear partial differential equations of the flow problem were renovated into the nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with the assistance of appropriate similarity transformations and then we solved these ODEs with the employment of the bvp4c technique using the computational software MATLAB. The consequences of numerous leading parameters such as thermophoretic parameter, local temperature Grashof number, solutal Grashof number, suction parameter, magnetic field parameter, Prandtl number, chemical reaction parameter, Dufour number, Soret number, angle of inclination, radiation parameter, heat source/sink, and Casson parameter on the fluid velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles are discoursed upon  and presented through different graphs. Some important key findings of the present investigation are that the temperature of the Casson fluid becomes lower for local temperature Grashof number and solutal Grashof number. It is initiated that the Casson fluid parameter increases the velocity of the fluid whereas the opposite effect is noticed in the temperature profile. Higher estimation of Prandtl number and magnetic parameter elevated the Casson fluid concentration. Finally, the skin friction coefficient, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number are calculated and tabulated. It is also examined that the Nusselt number is weakened for both the Dufour number and Soret number but the skin fraction coefficient is greater for both the Dufour number and Soret number.     

Magnetoconvection in an enclosure of water near its density maximum with Soret and Dufour effects

In this paper, unsteady double-diffusive magnetoconvection of water in an enclosure with Soret and Dufour effects around the density maximum has been numerically investigated. The right vertical wall has constant temperature, θ_c, while left vertical wall is θ_h, with θ_h > θ_c. The concentration in right wall is maintained lower than left wall (c_h > c_c). The remaining horizontal walls are adiabatic. The governing equations are solved by control volume method using SIMPLE algorithm with QUICK scheme. Representative results illustrating the effects of the thermal Rayleigh number, Hartmann number, the direction of magnetic field, density inversion parameter, buoyancy ratio, Schmidt number, and Soret and Dufour parameters on the contour maps of the fluid flow, temperature and concentration as well as the profile of velocity at mid-section of the enclosure are reported. In addition, numerical results for the average Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are presented for various parametric conditions and discussed.     

Free convection heat and mass transfer from an isothermal sphere to a micropolar regime with Soret/Dufour effects

An analysis is presented for the steady free convection heat and mass transfer from a spherical body in a micropolar fluid with Soret/Dufour effects included. The governing boundary layer equations are transformed into a non-dimensional form and the resulting non-linear system of partial differential equations are solved using the efficient Keller-box implicit numerical finite difference method. Excellent correlation of the present numerical solutions is achieved for the case of free convection micropolar flow neglecting Sort/Dufour effects, with the earlier study by Nazar et al. (2002) [12]. With increasing Soret number, the local Nusselt number is boosted considerably, with the converse response with an increase in Dufour number. Increasing micropolar vortex viscosity parameter (K) decelerates the flow near the sphere surface but serves to accelerate the flow further from the sphere wall. With increasing K, reverse spin is induced of the micro-elements near the sphere surface. Temperature is strongly boosted throughout the boundary layer regime with increasing K with a similar response computed for the species concentration Buoyancy-assistance (N > 0) accelerates the flow whereas buoyancy-opposition (N < 0) retards flow. Reverse spin of micro-elements (i.e. negative micro-rotation) is reduced near the sphere surface with buoyancy-opposition but exacerbated with buoyancy-assistance. Buoyancy-assistance serves to depress both temperature and concentration values through the boundary layer regime with the reverse effect sustained with buoyancy-opposition. An increase in Schmidt number acts to strongly inhibit the flow and also to stifle micro-rotation of the micro-elements. Conversely both temperatures and concentration values are accentuated with increasing Schmidt number. The study has important applications in buoyancy-driven, chemical engineering flow regimes.     

MHD flow in a rotating vertical cone through a porous medium

In the context of advancements in both heat and mass transfer, the current study intends to analyze the impacts of thermal radiation, Soret, and Dufour on the magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow through a vertical spinning cone in porous media. The Dufour effect is the energy flux due to the mass concentration gradient with a reciprocal phenomenon, the Soret effect. Energy expression considers the physical aspects of heat generation and absorption. It is expected that the tangential, circumferential, and normal directions will all have velocity components in flow through a porous media. The governing equations are nonlinear partial differential equations that are rearranged into ordinary differential equations via similarity transformation, and then they are numerically solved using the Runge–Kutta method along with a proper shooting strategy. Graphs are used to examine the impacts of many parameters on flow characteristic velocity, temperature, and concentration, including magnetic parameters, porous parameters, Dufour and Soret parameters, chemical reaction parameters, and more. The numerical findings of the gradient of velocity, the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers, and the surface drag force are tabulated and compared with the current result and the one from the literature. The findings are found to be in good agreement. Circumferential and normal velocities are improved visually for greater values of the porosity parameter, but the tangential velocity behavior of the magnetic parameter exhibits the reverse behavior. In addition, the Dufour parameter and chemical reaction both exhibit diminishing behavior when the Soret parameter increases.     

Numerical solution of MHD,Soret, Dufour,and thermal radiation contributions on unsteady free convection motion of Casson liquid past a semi-infinite vertical porous plate

In this paper, the unsteady motion of Casson liquid over a half-infinite penetrable vertical plate with MHD, thermal radiation, Soret, and Dufour contributions have been explored numerically. In the physical geometry, the Casson liquid flows to the layer from the penetrable vertical plate. At the layer, Casson liquid is set into motion and the flow equations are illustrated using coupled partial differential equations (PDEs). This set of PDEs is simplified to form dimensionless PDEs with the use of normal nondimensional transformation. The controlling parameters' effects on the working fluid are extensively discussed on velocity, concentration, and temperature and presented graphically. Computational values of Nusselt plus Sherwood number and skin friction for controlling parameters are depicted in a tabular form. Our outcomes show that a raise in the Casson term depreciates the velocity because of the magnetic parameter influence on the fluid flow. The Soret parameter was found to accelerate the skin friction along with the Sherwood number coefficients. An incremental value of the Dufour parameter was detected to hike the skin friction alongside the Nusselt number. Results of this study were found to be in conformity with previously published work.     

Soret and Dufour effects on free convection boundary layers over an inclined wavy surface in a porous medium

This work studies the heat and mass transfer characteristics of natural convection near a vertical wavy cone in a fluid saturated porous medium with Soret and Dufour effects. The surface of the wavy cone is kept at constant temperature and concentration. The governing equations are transformed into a set of coupled differential equations, and the obtained boundary layer equations are solved by the cubic spline collocation method. The heat and mass transfer characteristics are presented as functions of Soret parameter, Dufour parameter, half angle of the cone, Lewis number, buoyancy ratio, and dimensionless amplitude. Results show that an increase in the Dufour parameter tends to decrease the local Nusselt number, and an increase in the Soret parameter tends to decrease the local Sherwood number. Moreover, a greater half angle of the cone leads to a greater fluctuation of the local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers with the streamwise coordinates.     

Periodic free convection from a vertical plate in a saturated porous medium, non-equilibrium model

The problem of the free convection from a vertical heated plate in a porous medium is investigated numerically in the present paper. The effect of the sinusoidal plate temperature oscillation on the free convection from the plate is studied using the non-equilibrium model, i.e., porous solid matrix and saturated fluid are not necessary to be at same temperature locally. Non-dimensionalization of the two-dimensional transient laminar boundary layer equations results in three parameters: (1) H, heat transfer coefficient parameter, (2) K_r, thermal conductivity ratio parameter, and (3) λ, thermal diffusivity ratio. Two additional parameters arise from the plate temperature oscillation condition which are the non-dimensional amplitude (ε) and frequency (Ω). The fully implicit finite difference method is used to solve the system of equations. The numerical results are presented for 0 ? H ? 10, 0 ? K_r ? 10, 0.001 ? λ ? 10 with the plate temperature oscillation parameters 0 ? Ω ? 10 and 0 ? ε ? 0.5. The results show that the thermal conductivity ratio parameter is the most important parameter. It is found also that increasing the amplitude and the frequency of the oscillating surface temperature will decrease the free convection heat transfer from the plate for any values of the other parameters.     

Thermal characteristics of electroosmotic flow in a wavy-wall microtube

This study numerically investigates the electroosmotic flow and heat transfer in a wavy surface of the micro-tubes. The solution takes the electrokinetic effect and the amplitude of the wavy surface into consideration. A simple coordinate transformation method is used to transform a complex wavy micro-tube into a regular, circular tube. The governing equations, including the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, the modified Navier-Stokes equations, and the energy equation with their corresponding boundary conditions are also transformed into the computational domain and then solved by the finite difference method. The main objective is to investigate the difference of fluid flow and temperature fields for various wavelength ratio a and the electrokinetic parameter β. Results show that the distributions of the skin-friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number are oscillatory along the stream-wise direction for the wavy micro-tube (a ≠ 0). The amplitude of the oscillated local Nusselt number increases with an increase in the electrokinetic parameter β and wavelength ratio a, but that of the skin-friction coefficient decreases with an increase in the electrokinetic parameter β. The heat transfer enhancement is significant for the larger electrokinetic parameter β and wavelength ratio a.     

Soret effect on the boundary layer flow regime in a vertical porous enclosure subject to horizontal heat and mass fluxes

The combined thermo- and double-diffusive convection in a vertical tall porous cavity subject to horizontal heat and mass fluxes was investigated analytically and numerically using the Darcy model with the Boussinesq approximation. The investigation focused on the effect of Soret diffusion on the boundary layer flow regime. The governing parameters were the thermal Rayleigh number, R_T, the Lewis number, Le, the buoyancy ratio, N, the Soret parameter, M, which characterized the Soret effect, and the aspect ratio of the enclosure, A_r. The results demonstrated the existence of a boundary layer flow solution for which the Soret parameter had a strong effect on the heat and mass transfer characteristics. For M ≠ 1 and M ≠ −1/Le, the profiles of the vertical velocity component, v, temperature, T, and solute concentration, S, exhibited boundary layer behaviors at high Rayleigh numbers. Furthermore, as R_T increased, the temperature and solute concentration became vertically and linearly stratified in the core region of the enclosure. The thermo-diffusion effect on the boundary layer thickness, δ, was discussed for a wide range of the governing parameters. It was demonstrated analytically that the thickness of the boundary layer could either increase or decrease when the Soret parameter was varied, depending on the sign of the buoyancy ratio. The effect of R_T on the fluid flow properties and heat and mass transfer characteristics was also investigated.     

Soret and Dufour effects on free convection along a vertical wavy surface in a fluid saturated Darcy porous medium

In this article, free convection of heat and mass transfer along a vertical wavy surface in a Newtonian fluid saturated Darcy porous medium is studied by considering cross diffusion (namely the Soret and the Dufour effects) in the medium. The vertical wavy wall and the flow governing equations are transformed to a plane geometry case by using a suitable transformation. Then a similarity solution to this problem is presented under the large Darcy–Rayleigh number assumption. The governing partial differential equations are reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations that are integrated using numerical methods to study the nature of the non-dimensional heat and mass transfer coefficients in the medium. The results are presented for a range of the flow governing parameters such as the diffusivity ratio parameter, the buoyancy ratio parameter, the Soret parameter, the Dufour parameter and the amplitude of the wavy surface.     

Combined influence of cross-diffusion and variable fluid properties on free convection flow past a vertical cone

The free convective flow of an incompressible viscous fluid over an isothermal vertical cone with variable viscosity and variable thermal conductivity is examined in the presence of the Soret and Dufour effects. As thermal and solutal boundary conditions at the cone's surface, the constant temperature and concentration (WTC) and constant heat and mass flux (HMF) cases are taken into account. The successive linearization method is applied to linearize a system of nonlinear differential equations that describes the flow under investigation. The numerical solution for the resulting linear equations is attained by means of the Chebyshev spectral method. The obtained numerical results are compared and found to be in good agreement with previously published results. The impact of significant parameters on the heat and mass transfer rates is evaluated and presented graphically for the WTC and HMF situations. In both cases, the Soret number increases the skin friction coefficient and rate of heat transfer while decreasing the Sherwood number. With an increase in the Dufour parameter, the coefficient of skin friction and Sherwood numbers increase while the heat transmission rate decreases.     

Heat and mass transfer of MHD Jeffrey nanofluid flow through a porous media past an inclined plate with chemical reaction,radiation, and Soret effects

This paper investigates the heat and mass transfer of an unsteady, magnetohydrodynamic incompressible water-based nanofluid (Cu and TiO₂) flow over a stretching sheet in a transverse magnetic field with thermal radiation Soret effects in the presence of heat source and chemical reaction. The governing differential equations are transformed into a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations and solved using a regular perturbation technique with appropriate boundary conditions for various physical parameters. The effects of different physical parameters on the dimensionless velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles are depicted graphically and analyzed in detail. Finally, numerical values of the physical quantities, such as the local skin-friction coefficient, the Nusselt number, and the Sherwood number, are presented in tabular form. It is concluded that the resultant velocity reduces with increasing Jeffrey parameter and magnetic field parameter. Results describe that the velocity and temperature diminish with enhancing the thermal radiation. Both velocity and concentration are enhanced with increases of the Soret parameter. Also, it is noticed that the solutal boundary layer thickness decreases with an increase in chemical reaction parameters. This is because chemical molecular diffusivity reduces for higher values of chemical reaction parameter. Also, water-based TiO₂ nanofluids possess higher velocity than water-based Cu nanofluids. Comparisons with previously published work performed and the results are found to be in excellent agreement. This fluid flow model has several industrial applications in the field of chemical, polymer, medical science, and so forth.     

Chemical reaction effects on magnetohydrodynamic convective flow past a vertical absorbent plate with ramped wall temperature and concentration

The numerical analysis is conducted to evaluate the heat generating as well as Soret–Dufour influences on magnetohydrodynamic unsteady chemically reacting fluid. It is owing to an exponentially stimulating perpendicular porous plate entrenched in the absorbent medium by considering ramped surface temperatures and concentrations in the endurance of thermal radiating. The fundamental governing set of equations of the fluid dynamics in the flow is converted into dimensionless form by inserting suitable dimensionless parameters and variables, and the resulting equations are numerically solved by the efficient Crank–Nicolson implicit finite difference method. The influence of several important substantial parameters into the model on the velocity, temperature, and concentration of the fluid, in addition to the skin-frictions coefficient, Nusselt's number along with Sherwood's number for both thermal conditions has been studied and explored intensely by making use of graphs and tables. It is discovered that, with mounting values of Dufour, heat generating as well as thermal radiating parameters, the fluid temperatures, and velocity enhanced. Likewise, it is noticed that increasing the Soret parameter causes escalated fluid velocity and concentration, whereas the reverse result is noted with the chemical reaction parameter.     

Skin friction and heat transfer in power-law fluid laminar boundary layer along a moving surface

Analytical and numerical solutions are presented for momentum and energy laminar boundary layer along a moving plate in power-law fluids utilizing a similarity transformation and shooting technique. The results indicate that for a given power-law exponent n(0<n?1) or velocity ratio parameter ξ, the skin friction σ decreases with the increasing in ξ or n. The shear force decreases with the increasing in dimensionless tangential velocity t. When Prandtl number N_Pr=1, the dimensionless temperature w(t) is a linear function of t, and the viscous boundary layer is similar to that of thermal boundary layer. In particular, w(t)=t if ξ=0, i.e., the velocity distribution in viscous boundary layer has the same pattern as the temperature distribution in the thermal boundary and δ=δ_T. For N_Pr?1, the increase of viscous diffusion is larger than that of thermal diffusion with the increasing in N_Pr, and δ_T(t)<δ(t). The thermal diffusion ratio increases with the increasing in n(0<n?1) and ξ.     

Aspects of parabolic motion of MHD fluid flow past a vertical porous plate with cross-diffusion effects

In the presence of Soret and Dufour effects, a numerical analysis is performed for an unstable magnetohydrodynamics convective flow of parabolic motion with variable temperature and concentration. The finite-difference method is used to solve the set of nondimensional governing equations with boundary conditions numerically. Graphs are used to investigate the effect of various physical characteristics on flow quantities. Variations in skin friction, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number are also examined using tables for physical curiosity. This study is unique in that it takes into account changeable temperature as well as concentration with Soret and Dufour effects. The magnetic parameter, Prandtl number, heat source, radiation parameter, Schmidt number, and chemical reaction parameter show a significant increase in skin friction, whereas the Grashof number, modified Grashof number, permeability parameter, radiation absorption parameter, Dufour number, and Soret number show the opposite trend. As the Soret number rises, the concentration rises as well, whereas the opposite is true for the Schmidt number and the chemical reaction parameter. The current study is highly supported by previously published data that have been verified.     

Heat transfer in the magnetohydrodynamic flow of a power-law fluid past a porous flat plate with suction or blowing

An analysis is made of the steady magnetohydrodynamic flow of a power-law fluid past an infinite porous flat plate subjected to suction or blowing. A uniform transverse magnetic field is applied normal to the plate. It is shown that for small magnetic field parameter M, the steady solutions for velocity distribution exist for a pseudoplastic (shear-thinning) fluid for which the power-law index n satisfies 1/2 < n ≤ 1 provided that there is suction at the plate. For blowing at the plate the steady solutions for velocity distribution exist only when n is of the form p/q, where p is an odd positive integer and q is an even positive integer provided 1/2 < n < 1. Velocity at a point is found to increase with increase in M. The solution of the energy equation governing temperature distribution in the flow of a pseudoplastic fluid past an infinite porous plate subjected to uniform suction reveals that the temperature at a given point increases with increase in M.