Suction and Injection Impacts On Casson Nanofluid with Gyrotactic Microorganisms Over a Moving Wedge
Abstract The present work deals with the effects of suction and injection on Casson nanofluid around a moving wedge under the influence of gyrotactic microorganisms along with viscous & ohmic dissipation. The governing system of highly coupled nonlinear PDEs together with assisting boundary conditions are converted by applying suitable similarity transformations, into a set of non-linear ODEs. The obtained flow model is solved numerically by bvp4c (MATLAB) procedure. The accuracy of the flow model under consideration is validated by employing another well-known mathematical technique Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg (RKF) having good agreement while comparing the numerical results obtained by bvp4c for both suction & injection cases. Impacts of various pertinent parameters active in the flow model such as thermophoresis and Brownian motion, moving wedge, magnetic field, viscous and ohmic dissipation are numerically calculated for both suction & injection flow situations and also presented graphically. It is observed that the increase in casson parameter enhances the velocity but declines the density of motile organism, concentration and temperature for suction as well as injection flow case. The impacts of mass transfer rate of gyrotactic microorganisms, Nusselt and Sherwood numbers for various fluid parameters are numerically presented in tabular form, separately for both suction and injection. One of the important observation of the current study is that the suction or injection plays a key role in controlling boundary layer flow and brings stability in the flow. Moreover, rate of heat & mass transfer get enhanced in the existence of gyrotactic microorganisms. Further, it would be worth mentioning that physical behavior of this flow problem coincide very well with already published literature either graphical or in tabular representation.