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Published on: May 28, 2007
Magnetized and non-magnetized Casson fluid flow with gyrotactic microorganisms over a stratified stretching cylinder
Abdullah Dawar1, Zahir Shah2, Hashim M Alshehri3
1Department of Mathematics, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Mardan, 23200, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Abstract:
This study presents the magnetized and non-magnetized Casson fluid flow with gyrotactic microorganisms over a stratified stretching cylinder. The mathematical modeling is presented in the form of partial differential equations and then transformed into ordinary differential equations (ODEs) utilizing suitable similarity transformations. The analytical solution of the transformed ODEs is presented with the help of homotopy analysis method (HAM). The convergence analysis of HAM is also presented by mean of figure. The present analysis consists of five phases. In the first four phases, we have compared our work with previously published investigations while phase five is consists of our new results. The influences of dimensionless factors like a magnetic parameter, thermal radiation, curvature parameter, Prandtl number, Brownian motion parameter, Schmidt number, heat generation, chemical reaction parameter, thermophoresis parameter, Eckert number, and concentration difference parameter on physical quantities of interests and flow profiles are shown through tables and figures. It has been established that with the increasing Casson parameter (i.e. [Formula: see text]), the streamlines become denser which results the increasing behavior in the fluid velocity while on the other hand, the fluid velocity reduces for the existence of Casson parameter (i.e. [Formula: see text]). Also, the streamlines of stagnation point Casson fluid flow are highly wider for the case of magnetized fluid as equated to non-magnetized fluid. The higher values of bioconvection Lewis number, Peclet number, and microorganisms' concentration difference parameter reduces the motile density function of microorganisms while an opposite behavior is depicted against density number.
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