Stability of magnetohydrodynamics free convective micropolar thermal liquid movement over an exponentially extended curved surface

Heliyon. 2023 Nov 4;9(11):e21807. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e21807. eCollection 2023 Nov.

Abstract

Micro polar fluids have a wide variety of applications in biomedical, manufacturing, and technical activities, such as nuclear structures, biosensors, electronic heating and cooling, etc. The aim of this study is to investigate the properties of heat transfer on a magnetohydrodynamic free convection movement of micro polar fluid over an exponentially stretchable curved surface. The flow is non-turbulent and steady. The effects of Joule heating, varying thermal conductivity, irregular heat reservoir, and non-linear radiation are anticipated. The modelled PDEs are converted to ODEs via transformation, and the integration problems are then addressed using ND-Solve method along with bvp4c package. It is observed that velocity is reduced and the micro rotation field is increased as the micro rotation parameter is increased. It is witnessed that the temperature of the fluid enhances as the Eckert number is augmented. The velocity is increasing function of the curvature parameter while the decreases with increasing magnetic factor. The distribution of temperature is improved by a rise in temperature-dependent thermal conductivity characteristic. It is investigated that as the values of temperature ratio, Prandtl number, and the Biot number are increased the temperature distribution is enhanced. For the stability of the numerical results, the mean square residue error (MSRE) and total mean square residue error (TMSRE) are computed. For the confirmation of the present analysis, a comparison is done with the published study and excellent settlement is found.

Keywords: Exponentially extended curved surface; Heat source; Micro polar thermal liquid; Nanofluidics; Nanomaterial; Variable thermal conductivity; bvp4c and ND-Solve.