Jat Kavita, Sharma Kalpna, Choudhary Prasun, Soni Pooja
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, 303007, Rajasthan, India.
Centre for Computational Modeling, Chennai Institute of Technology, Chennai, 600069, Tamil Nadu, India.
J Biol Phys. 2025 Jan 30;51(1):8. doi: 10.1007/s10867-025-09669-7.
This study evaluates the unsteady laminar flow and heat and mass transfer of a nanofluid in the appearance of gyrotactic microorganisms. In this analysis, using the Darcy-Forchheimer flow inside the vicinity of a nonlinearly stretched surface with Brownian motion and thermophoresis impacts. Similarity conversion is familiar with reduced governing models into dimensionless variables, and "bvp4c," a MATLAB solver, is employed to find the computational outputs of this analysis. This analysis reports that the use of nanofluids provides better thermal characteristics which are helpful to enhance the heat transfer coefficient. Graphs for this analysis are created for distinct values of non-dimensionless parameters, whereas the coefficient of surface drag, heat flux, mass flux, and rate of microorganism density are all interpreted numerically and graphically. The high level of resistance provided by velocity slip and Forchheimer parameters leads to a decrease in velocity curves while an increment is seen in the temperature profile. It is also remarked that bioconvection Peclet number induces a decrement in the density distribution of motile microorganisms. In addition, it has been observed that the Nusselt number for a nonlinear stretching sheet is better as compared to a linear stretching sheet.
本研究评估了在存在趋旋性微生物的情况下纳米流体的非定常层流以及传热传质情况。在该分析中,考虑了具有布朗运动和热泳效应的非线性拉伸表面附近的达西 - 福希海默流动。相似变换用于将控制模型简化为无量纲变量,并使用MATLAB求解器“bvp4c”来获得该分析的计算结果。该分析报告称,使用纳米流体可提供更好的热特性,这有助于提高传热系数。针对无量纲参数的不同值绘制了该分析的图表,而表面阻力系数、热通量、质量通量和微生物密度率均通过数值和图形方式进行了解释。速度滑移和福希海默参数提供的高阻力水平导致速度曲线下降,而温度分布则出现上升。还指出,生物对流佩克莱数会导致活动微生物的密度分布减少。此外,已经观察到,与线性拉伸片相比,非线性拉伸片的努塞尔数更好。