Thermal cooling performance of convective non-Newtonian nanofluid flowing with variant power-index across moving extending surface

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 8714
• Main Authors: Ferdows, M., Shamshuddin, MD, Salawu, S. O., Sun, Shuyu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 24.05.2022; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/166; 639/705; 639/766; Computer applications; Differential equations; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Nanoparticles; Nanotechnology; Ordinary differential equations; Partial differential equations; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Thermal conductivity; Velocity
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12333-y

This communication focuses on assessing the effectiveness of nanoparticles, and a power-law variation fluid on a moving stretching surface is analyzed. Newtonian fluids for different nanomaterials are considered due to its industrial demand. The partial differential equations describing the flow are transformed to ordinary differential equations by employing local similarity transformations and then solved numerically by an effective numerical approach, namely, the local nonsimilarity method (LNS). The numerical solution is computed for different parameters by using the computational software MATLAB. Different types of nanoparticles are considered, and the impact of those nanoparticles as well as the impact of different pertaining parameters on velocity, temperature, missing velocity slope, and missing temperature slope are presented graphically. Comparisons are made with the available results in the open literature. Our investigation conveys a better impact on Ag nanoparticles due to their higher thermal conductivity. Furthermore, an increase in the free stream velocity, missing temperature slope and velocity slope is enhanced, but after a point of separation, the missing temperature slope decays.