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Insight into the Dynamics of Fractional Maxwell Nano-Fluids Subject to Entropy Generation, Lorentz Force and Heat
Muhammad Imran Asjad1, Muhammad Usman2, Arfan Ali1
1Department of Mathematics, University of Management and Technology, Lahore 54770, Pakistan.
Abstract:
In recent times, the loss of useful energy and solutions to those energy challenges have a wide scope in different areas of engineering. This work focuses on entropy analysis for unsteady viscoelastic fluids. The momentum boundary layer and thermal boundary layer are described under the effects of a magnetic field in the absence of an induced magnetic field. The study of a fractional model of Maxwell nanofluid by partial differential equation using Caputo time differential operator can well address the memory effect. Using transformations, the fractional ordered partial differential equations (PDEs) are transfigured into dimensionless PDEs. Numerical results for fractional Maxwell nanofluids flow and heat transfer are driven graphically. The Bejan number is obtained following the suggested transformation of dimensionless quantities like entropy generation. A mathematical model of entropy generation, Bejan number, Nusselt number and skin friction are developed for nanofluids. Effects of different physical parameters like Brickman number, Prandtl number, Grashof number and Hartmann number are illustrated graphically by MAPLE. Results depict that the addition of nanoparticles in base-fluid controls the entropy generation that enhances the thermal conductivity and application of magnetic field has strong effects on the heat transfer of fractional Maxwell fluids. An increasing behavior in entropy generation is noticed in the presence of source term and thermal radiation parameter.
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