Title: Entropy analysis of 3D MHD nanofluid flow over a linearly stretching surface

Authors: Muhammad Nazim Tufail; Adnan Saeed Butt; Asif Ali

Addresses: Department of Mathematics, University of Management and Technology, Sialkot Campus, 51310, Pakistan ' Department of Mathematics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan ' Department of Mathematics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan

Abstract: A numerical study of three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flow of nanofluid over a surface stretching linearly in two directions is carried out. The problem is analysed from first and second law of thermodynamics point of view. Suitable similarity transformations are employed to obtain nonlinear ordinary differential equations from the partial differential equations that govern the considered problem. The shooting technique with fourth fifth order Runge Kutta method is utilised to solve the converted equations. The effects of pertinent parameters on velocity and temperature profiles as well as on entropy generation are discussed briefly using graphs.

Keywords: Buongiorno model; Brownian motion; thermophoresis; entropy generation; magnetic field.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEX.2019.104100

International Journal of Exergy, 2019 Vol.30 No.4, pp.322 - 337

Received: 19 Dec 2018
Accepted: 25 Jul 2019

Published online: 13 Dec 2019 *

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