GYROTACTIC MICROORGANISMS FREE CONVECTION BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW ABOUT A VERTICAL TRUNCATED CONE IN NANOFLUID POROUS MEDIA

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Mahdy, A. [1 ]
Elshehabey, H. M. [1 ,2 ]
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[1] South Valley Univ, Fac Sci, Math Dept, Qena, Egypt
[2] Univ Tecn Lisboa, Inst Super Tecn, Math Dept, Lisbon, Portugal
关键词
Bioconvection; truncated cone; gyrotactic microorganisms; nanofluid; boundary layer; HEAT-TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; NATURAL-CONVECTION; MASS-TRANSFER; BIOCONVECTION; PLATE;
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TQ [化学工业];
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A non-similar boundary layer analysis is presented to examine the natural convection flow over a truncated cone with fixed apex half angle; pointing downwards in a nanofluid saturated porous medium contains gyrotactic microorganisms. A suitable coordinate transformation is performed, and the obtained non-similar equations are solved by fourth order Runge-Kutta method technique coupled with shooting scheme. The effects of the thermophoresis parameter, Brownian parameter, Lewis number, bioconvection Peclet number, bioconvection Lewis number, bioconvection Rayleigh number and buoyancy ratio on the reduced Nusselt, Sherwood and density of motile microorganisms numbers have been studied. A comprehensive numerical computation is carried out for various values of the parameters that describe the flow characteristics.
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页数:6
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