MHD Bioconvection Flow and Heat Transfer of Nanofluid through an Exponentially Stretchable Sheet

Recently, bioconvection phenomenon has gained great importance in research for its use in many engineering and biological applications. Therefore, this work investigates the magnetohydrodynamic flow of a dissipative nanofluid, including gyrotactic microorganisms along an exponentially moving sheet. Since the governing equations that describe the problem are nonlinear and more complicated, similarity transformations are used to get a reduced mathematical model in which all the differential equations are ordinary and asymmetric. The computational analysis for the reduced mathematical model is carried out, employing the spectral relaxation technique (SRM) via software called MATLAB. Comparison results are also validated by using the boundary value problem solver (bvp4c) in MATLAB. The obtained results were compared with previously published researches, and a high degree of compatibility and accuracy were found symmetric. The implications of pertinent parameters on velocity, temperature, nanoparticles volume fraction, and density of the microorganism profiles are graphically presented. A decline was seen in the velocity field with augmentation in the magnetic parameter, but certain enhancement was noticed in the temperature field for augmented values of the magnetic parameter, thermophoresis, and Brownian motion parameters. A significant reduction was also noticed in the behavior of the concentration profile for augmented values of the Brownian motion parameter and Lewis number, while it was enhanced with the boost in the thermophoresis and magnetic parameters. The results also indicated that the density of the motile microorganism decreases with bioconvection Lewis number, Prandtl number, Lewis, and Peclet numbers.

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