Numerical exploration of slip effects on second-grade fluid motion over a porous revolving disk with heat and mass transfer

Heliyon. 2023 Jul 26;9(8):e18683. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18683. eCollection 2023 Aug.

Abstract

Revolving-disk systems are employed in various industrial settings including turbine engineering, chemical and food processing industries and others. The current article scrutinizes a second-grade fluid motion generated by an infinite porous disk having partial slip character. Heat transfer induced by heating of the disk surface and by viscous and ohmic heating effects is modeled and analyzed under thermal slip condition. Accompanying mass transfer process with thermophoretic diffusion is also formulated. A self-similar system is obtained akin to the case of no-slip case discussed in a previously published study. The adoption of velocity slip assumption induces non-linearity in the boundary conditions in velocity components. Computational procedure embedded in MATLAB bvp4c platform is opted to simulate the system for full range of slip parameters. In contrast to a previously published work pertaining to the no-slip case, present numerical methodology gives accurate results for wide ranges of Prandtl number and elasticity parameter. Boundary layer formations above the disk are examined under various controlling parameters. A comparative assessment of slip and no-slip cases is presented through both graphical illustrations and tabulated results for the resisting torque, the Nusselt number and the Sherwood number. Current numerical findings match very well with the existing homotopy solutions for the no-slip case. The presence of a wall slip mechanism leads to a clear suppression of all the velocity components. Furthermore, an augmentation in the thermal/concentration slip coefficient significantly reduces the thermal/solutal penetration depth. Additionally, we observe a noticeable increase in the driving torque as the elasticity parameter enhances. The slip action of the surface is also predicted to raise the torque required by the disk.

Keywords: Computational result; Elasticity parameter; Heat transfer; Partial slip; Revolving disk; Similarity solution.