Dissipative Heat Transfer on Hydromagnetic Flow of Copper and Alumina Ethylene-Glycol Based Nanofluid over a Heated Vertical Plate
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Date
2021
Authors
Mwaighacho, Ethel
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
In this study, the dissipative heat transfer of magnetohydrodynamic nanofluid with EthyleneGlycol as the base fluid containing copper and Alumina as the nanoparticles is considered.
The steady viscous flow of the electrically conducting liquid is considered to be along a
heated vertical plate. The transformed boundary layer equations are non-dimensionalized
using appropriate similarity variables and solved using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method
coupled with a shooting technique. The influence of pertinent parameters on velocity profile,
temperature profile, skin friction and Nusselt number are investigated and the results
analyzed graphically using MATLAB. The results obtained in velocity, temperature and
concentration profiles were in good agreement with the actual flow dynamics. Al2O3-
Ethylene glycol-based nanofluid had the highest skin friction while Cu-Ethylene glycol-based
nanofluid had higher heat and mass transfer rates.
Description
A Research Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Award of the Degree of Masters of Science in Applied Mathematics in the School of Pure and Applied Sciences of Kenyatta University, June, 2021.
Keywords
Dissipative Heat Transfer, Hydromagnetic, Copper, Alumina Ethylene-Glycol, Nanofluid, Heated Vertical Plate