Mixed convective flow of heat and mass transfer of nanofluids over a static wedge with convective boundary conditions
1Department of Applied Mathematics, Y.V. University, Kadapa, A.P., India
2Department of Mathematics, GITAM School of Science, GITAM University, Bengaluru-Campus, Karnataka-562163, India
J Ther Eng 2021; 7(8): 1958-1969 DOI: 10.18186/thermal.1051302
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Abstract

With the fast improvement of the industry and the utilization of inventive strategies, scientists want to think over the steady blending convection of water-based nanofluids past static wedges. The Buongiorno model with convection is applied. Also, incorporated the Brownian motion and thermophoresis. The attention is on the nature of mixed wedge formed convective heat and mass transfer of the nanofluid flow. Utilizing comparable change, the governing partial differential equations (PDEs) are reduced to ordinary differential equations (ODEs) solved by the R-K Gill method. The physical quantities of velocity, temperature and concentration fields, as well as diffusion and thermal transfer rates with friction factor coefficients, is discussed. The investigation demonstrated that the temperature convergence of the liquid was higher within the sight of the thermophoresis parameter and Biot numbers. It has been seen that divider pressure increments with expanding wedge and mixed convection parameters.