Abdelsalam Sara I, Bhatti M M
Basic Science, Faculty of Engineering, The British University in Egypt Al-Shorouk City Cairo 11837 Egypt
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology Pasadena CA 91125 USA.
RSC Adv. 2018 Feb 20;8(15):7904-7915. doi: 10.1039/c7ra13188g. eCollection 2018 Feb 19.
In this study, we considered the unsteady peristaltic motion of a non-Newtonian nanofluid under the influence of a magnetic field and Hall currents. The simultaneous effects of ion slip and chemical reaction were also taken into consideration. The flow problem was suggested on the basis of the continuity, thermal energy, linear momentum, and nanoparticle concentration, which were further reduced with the help of Ohm's law. Mathematical modelling was executed using the lubrication approach. The resulting highly nonlinear partial differential equations were solved semi-analytically using the homotopy perturbation technique. The impacts of all the pertinent parameters were investigated mathematically and graphically. Numerical calculations have been used to calculate the expressions for the pressure increase and friction forces along the whole length of the channel. The results depict that for a relatively large value of the Brownian parameter, the chemical reaction has a dual behaviour on the concentration profile. Moreover, there is a critical point of the magnetic parameter at which the behaviours of the pressure increase and friction forces are reversed for progressive values of the power law index. The present investigation provides a theoretical model that estimates the impact of a wide range of parameters on the characteristics of blood-like fluid flows.
在本研究中,我们考虑了在磁场和霍尔电流影响下非牛顿纳米流体的非定常蠕动运动。同时还考虑了离子滑移和化学反应的影响。流动问题是基于连续性、热能、线性动量和纳米颗粒浓度提出的,并借助欧姆定律进一步简化。使用润滑方法进行数学建模。使用同伦摄动技术对所得的高度非线性偏微分方程进行半解析求解。对所有相关参数的影响进行了数学和图形研究。数值计算用于计算沿通道全长的压力增加和摩擦力的表达式。结果表明,对于相对较大的布朗参数值,化学反应对浓度分布具有双重行为。此外,存在一个磁参数临界点,对于幂律指数的渐进值,压力增加和摩擦力的行为在该点会发生反转。本研究提供了一个理论模型,可估计各种参数对类血液流体流动特性的影响。