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Nanoparticle Shape Effect on a Sodium–Alginate Based Cu–Nanofluid under a Transverse Magnetic Field
Samia Rani1, H. A. M. Al–Sharifi2, Mohammad S. Zannon3, Abid Hussanan1,*, Zafar Ullah1
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Department of Mathematics, Division of Science and Technology, University of Education, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
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Department of Mathematics, College of Education for Pure Sciences, University of Kerbala, Kerbala, 1125, Iraq
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Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Tafila Technical University (TTU), Al-Iess, Tafila, 66110, Jordan
* Corresponding Author: Abid Hussanan. Email:
(This article belongs to this Special Issue: Electro- magnetohydrodynamic Nanoliquid Flow and Heat Transfer)
Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing 2023, 19(7), 1875-1896. https://doi.org/10.32604/fdmp.2023.025224
Received 29 June 2022; Accepted 25 October 2022; Issue published 08 March 2023
Abstract
Sodium-alginate (SA) based nanofluids represent a new generation of fluids with improved performances in terms
of heat transfer. This work examines the influence of the nanoparticle shape on a non–Newtonian viscoplastic
Cu–nanofluid pertaining to this category. In particular, a stretching/shrinking sheet subjected to a transverse magnetic field is considered. The proposed Cu–nanofluid consists of four different nanoparticles having different
shapes, namely bricks, cylinders, platelets, and blades dispersed in a mixture of sodium alginate with Prandtl
number Pr = 6.45. Suitable similarity transformations are employed to reduce non–linear PDEs into a system
of ODEs and these equations and related boundary conditions are solved numerically by means of a Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg (RKF) method. Moreover, analytical solutions are obtained through the application of a MAPLE
built–in differential equation solver (Dsolve). The behavior of prominent parameters against velocity and temperature is analyzed. It is found that the temperature increases for all shapes of nanoparticles with the viscoplastic
parameter and the Eckert number.
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Rani, S., A., H., Zannon, M. S., Hussanan, A., Ullah, Z. (2023). Nanoparticle Shape Effect on a Sodium–Alginate Based Cu–Nanofluid under a Transverse Magnetic Field.
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