IJSR - International Journal of Scientific Research

A.Haritha; V.Nagendramma

Volume : VIII, Issue : VI, June - 2019

MHD Casson fluid flow Past a Stretching Cylinder subject to nanoparticles with Cattaneo–Christove Heat Flux

A. Haritha, V. Nagendramma

Abstract :

This article presents the steady, incompressible Casson nanofluid flow over a stretching cylinder subject to thermophoresis and Brownian motion in the presence of prescribed heat flux. Instead of Fourier’s law Cattaneo–Christove heat flux theory is used to derive the energy equation. This theory can predict the characteristics of thermal relaxation time. The governing partial differential equations are transfigured into a system of ordinary differential equations by applying suitable similarity solutions and solved numerically by using Runge–Kutta fourth order method with shooting technique. The aim of the present study is to analyze the influence of various parameters, viz, Casson parameter, curvature parameter, thermal relaxation parameter, thermophoresis parameter, Prandtl number and Brownian motion parameter on the velocity profile, temperature and concentration profiles.