Abstract
In this paper, an analysis is carried out for the similarity solution of the steady boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a Casson nanofluid flowing over a vertical cylinder which is stretching exponentially along its radial direction. Using boundary layer approach and suitable similarity transformation the governing partial differential equations with the boundary conditions are reduced to a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The resulting system is solved with the help of numerical technique, the Runge–Kutta Fehlberg method. The effects of important parameters such as Reynolds number, Prandtl number, Lewis number and the natural convection parameter are described through graphs.
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Introduction
Casson nanofluid in cylindrical geometry has important application in blood flow. Mathematicians as well as medical researcher are widely working on Casson nanofluid model. Rehman and Nadeem (2012) have examined the mixed convection heat transfer in micropolar nanofluid over a vertical slender cylinder. In another paper, Nadeem et al. (2013a) investigated the boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid over a vertical slender cylinder. Recently, Makinde et al. (2013) presented the analysis of buoyancy effects on MHD stagnation point flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid past a convectively heated stretching/shrinking sheet. Habibi and Pop (2013) published their work on natural convection flow and heat transfer in an eccentric annulus filled by copper nanofluid. Xu et al. (2013) worked on the analysis of mixed convection flow of a nanofluid in a vertical channel with the Buogiorno mathematical model. Rashidi et al. (2013) have discussed the entropy generation in steady MHD flow due to a rotating porous disk in a nanofluid. Some interesting studies concerning the fluid flow over cylindrical surfaces may include the works of Anwar et al. (2008), Gorla and Ameri (1985), Ishak et al. (2008), Wang (2012), Malik et al. (2009), Malik et al. (2011) and Nadeem et al. (2012b), while some interesting work regarding nanoparticle effects over different flow situations may include the efforts of Abdul Rehman et al. (2013), Nadeem et al. (2013a), Ellahi et al. (2013), Nadeem et al. (2012c), Nadeem et al. (2013b) and Nadeem et al. (2013c)
Boundary layer flow of Casson fluid over different geometries is considered by many authors in recent years. Nadeem et al. (2012a) presented MHD flow of a Casson fluid over an exponentially shrinking sheet. Kumari et al. (2011) analysed peristaltic pumping of a MHD Casson fluid in an inclined channel. Sreenadh et al. (2011) studied the flow of a Casson fluid through an inclined tube of non uniform cross-section with multiple stenoses. Mernone and Mazumdar (2002) discussed the peristaltic transport of a Casson fluid. Porwal and Badshah (2012) work on steady blood flow with Casson fluid along an inclined plane influenced by the gravity force.
In this paper, a boundary layer flow of a Casson nanofluid over a vertical exponentially stretching cylinder is studied. A system of non linear partial differential equations is obtained using boundary layer approximation. After applying suitable transformation, a system of non linear ordinary differential equations with boundary conditions is obtained. Runge–Kutta Fehlburg method is used to solve the system. The variation of different parameters is graphically shown.
Formulation
Consider the problem of natural convection boundary layer flow of a Casson nanofluid flowing over a vertical circular cylinder of radius a. The cylinder is assumed to be stretched exponentially along the radial direction with velocity \( U_{w} \). The temperature at the surface of the cylinder is assumed to be \( T_{w} \) and the uniform ambient temperature is taken as \( T_{\infty } \) such that the quantity \( T_{w} - T_{\infty } > 0 \) in case of the assisting flow, while \( T_{w} - T_{\infty } < 0 \) in case of the opposing flow, respectively. Under these assumptions the boundary layer equations of motion heat transfer and nano particle concentration are
where the velocity components along the \( \left( {r,\,z} \right) \) axes are \( \left( {u,\,w} \right) \), \( \rho \) is the density, \( \nu \) is the kinematic viscosity, \( p \) is pressure, \( g \) is the gravitational acceleration along the \( z \)direction, \( \beta \) is the coefficient of thermal expansion, \( T \) is the temperature and \( \alpha \) is the thermal diffusivity. The corresponding boundary conditions for the problem are
where \( U_{w} = 2ak{\text{e}}^{z/a} \) is the fluid velocity at the surface of the cylinder.
Solution of the problem
Introduce the following similarity transformations:
where the characteristic temperature and nano concentration difference are calculated from the relations \( T_{w} - T_{\infty } = c{\text{e}}^{z/a} \) and \( \;\varphi_{w} - \varphi_{\infty } = {\text{e}}^{z/a} . \) With the help of transformations (8) and (9), Eqs. (1)–(4) take the form
in which \( \lambda = g\beta a(T_{w} - T_{\infty } )/U_{w}^{2} \) is the buoyancy (natural convection) parameter, \( Pr = v/\alpha \) is the Prandtl number, \( Le = \nu /D_{B} \) is the Lewis number, \( N_{\text{r}} = (\rho^{ * } - \rho )(\varphi_{w} - \varphi_{\infty } )/\rho \beta (T_{w} - T_{\infty } )(1 - \varphi_{\infty } ) \) is the buoyancy ratio, \( N_{\text{b}} = \rho^{ * } C_{p}^{ * } D_{B} (\varphi_{w} - \varphi_{\infty } )/\rho C_{p} \alpha \) is the Brownian motion parameter, \( N_{\text{t}} = \rho^{ * } C_{p}^{ * } D_{T} (\varphi_{w} - \varphi_{\infty } )/\rho C_{p} \alpha T_{\infty } \) is the thermophoresis parameter and \( Re = aU_{w} /4\nu \) is the Reynolds number. The boundary conditions in nondimensional form become
The important physical quantities such as the shear stress at the surface \( \tau_{w} , \) the skinfriction coefficient \( c_{f} , \) the heat flux at the surface of the cylinder \( q_{w} \) and the local Nusselt number \( Nu \) are
The solution of the present problem is obtained using the numerical technique the Runge–Kutta Fehlberg method.
Results and discussion
The problem of mixed convection boundary layer flow of a Casson nanofluid over an exponentially stretched cylinder is studied in this paper. The cylinder is assumed to be stretched exponentially along its radial direction. The exponential stretching velocity at the surface of the cylinder is assumed to be \( U_{w} = 2ake^{z/a} . \) The solution of the problem is obtained numerically with the help of Runge–Kutta Fehlberg method. The effect of the various parameters such as the Reynolds number \( Re, \) the Casson fluid parameter \( \beta \), the Brownian motion parameter \( N_{\text{b}} \), the thermophoresis parameter \( N_{\text{t}} \), the buoyancy ratio parameter \( N_{\text{r}} \), the Prandtl number \( Pr \) and the mixed convection parameter \( \lambda \) over the nondimensional velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are presented graphically and in the form of tables. Figure 1 shows the effect of Casson fluid parameter \( \beta \) on the velocity profile \( f^{\prime} \). From Fig. 1, it is observed that for increasing the value of \( \beta \) the velocity profile decreases. Figure 2 shows the influence of mixed convection parameter \( \lambda \) over the velocity profile \( f^{\prime } \), when mixed convection parameter \( \lambda \) increases the velocity profile also increases. That is the mixed convection parameter \( \lambda \) is directly proportional to the velocity profile \( f^{\prime } \) for constant values of other parameters. Similar pattern is seen for the buoyancy ratio \( N_{\text{r}} \) in Fig. 3. In Fig. 4 by increasing the value of Reynolds number \( Re \) the velocity profile decreases. Figures 5 and 6 show a very slow increase in temperature profile by increasing the values of Brownian motion parameter \( N_{\text{b}} \) and the thermophoresis parameter \( N_{\text{t}} \). Figures 7 and 8 show similar behaviour of temperature profile by increasing the values of Reynolds number \( Re \) and the Prantdle number \( Pr \), the temperature profile decreases rapidly. In Fig. 9 it is clear that by increasing the value of Lewis number \( Le \) the nano concentration profile decreases instantly. In Fig. 10 a very slow upraising effect of Reynolds number \( Re \) on nano concentration profile by increasing the value of Reynolds number \( Re \). Table 1 shows the boundary derivatives for the velocity profile at the surface of the cylinder that corresponds to the skin friction coefficient at the surface tabulated for different values of \( \beta \) and \( \lambda \). From the table, it is observed that the magnitude of the boundary derivative increases with the increase in \( \beta \) and decreases by increasing the values of \( \lambda \). Table 2 shows the values for local Nusselt numbers calculated for different values of \( Re \) and \( Pr \). From entries in the Table 2 it is noticed that with increase in \( Re \) and \( Pr \), local Nusselt number increases.
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Malik, M.Y., Naseer, M., Nadeem, S. et al. The boundary layer flow of Casson nanofluid over a vertical exponentially stretching cylinder. Appl Nanosci 4, 869–873 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-013-0267-0
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