Thermal Stratification on MHD Water Base Nanofluid Flow over a Porous Vertical Plate

Abstract

The study is on thermal stratification on Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) water based nanofluid. The nonlinear governing equations and their related boundary conditions are initially looked into dimensionless forms by similarity variables. Fourth/fifth-order Runge Kutta Fehlberg method with shooting scheme for numerical simulation is applied. Results obtained were plotted and analyzed in (Figures) and (Tables) for both the velocity ƒ(η) and the temperature θ(η). However, the reaction on the magnetic field, porous, thermophoresis, Brownian motion, Buoyancy and suction are given. The results obtained indicate that the temperature θ(η) increase with an increase in thermal magnetic parameter on the nanofluid. It was also obtained that thermal stratification at  e1 = 0.01 parameters is higher than when it is at e1 = 0.9. Maple 18 is used at the software platform.