Open AccessGYROTACTIC MICROORGANISMS FREE CONVECTION BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW ABOUT A VERTICAL TRUNCATED CONE IN NANOFLUID POROUS MEDIA
Author(s) -
A. Mahdy,
Hillal M. Elshehabey
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
latin american applied research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1851-8796
pISSN - 0327-0793
DOI - 10.52292/j.laar.2018.259
Subject(s) - lewis number , péclet number , nanofluid , thermophoresis , mechanics , nusselt number , natural convection , sherwood number , boundary layer , buoyancy , darcy number , rayleigh number , materials science , convection , thermodynamics , physics , heat transfer , mass transfer , reynolds number , turbulence
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.