Soret and Dufour Effects on Hydromagnetic Flow of H2O-Based Nanofluids Induced by an Exponentially Expanding Sheet Saturated in a Non-Darcian Porous Medium

Diffusion-thermo effect (Dufour effect) and thermal-diffusion effect (Soret effect) on an MHD flow through porous medium taking nanoparticles may be considered to be useful in many engineering problems when there is a species concentration along with the solid nanoparticles. To study such an attracting problem, it is necessary to consider the flow to be single-phase. In the present investigation, the hydromagnetic flow of H2O-based nanofluids due to an exponentially expanding sheet saturated in non-Darcian porous material is examined with Dufour and Soret effects. In addition, temperature and species concentration along the surface in flow distribution are considered to be variable exponentially. Two sorts of nanofluids are considered, to be specific, Cu–H2O and Ag–H2O. Use of proper similarity transformations transfers the governing PDEs to coupled ODEs. Then the solutions of the coupled equations are computed by very efficient shooting method. Non-dimensionless velocity species concentration and temperature are introduced in graphical mode for several values of involved parameters. Out of several obtained outcomes, it is noticeable that similar to the magnetic parameter and permeability parameter, due to increase in non-Darcy Forchheimer parameter velocity diminishes and while temperature and species concentration increments are witnessed. Due to presence of Dufour effect, temperature enhances and similarly, the concentration increases for Soret effect. While due to Dufour effect, the concentration initially decreases, but away from surface it increases and similar behaviour is found for temperature in the case of Soret effect. Also, it is obtained that skin-friction coefficient for Cu–H2O nanofluid is larger than it value for Ag–H2O nanofluid. Dufour effect turns into the reason for the reduction of Nusselt number and increment of Sherwood number for both nanofluids, but Soret effect affects the two nanofluids reversely. The analysis and its findings provide some tools which may be applied in engineering and industrial problems.

Computational Assessment of Thermal and Solute Mechanisms in Carreau–Yasuda Hybrid Nanoparticles Involving Soret and Dufour Effects over Porous Surface

Engineers, scientists and mathematicians are greatly concerned about the thermal stability/instability of any physical system. Current contemplation discusses the role of the Soret and Dufour effects in hydro-magnetized Carreau–Yasuda liquid passed over a permeable stretched surface. Several important effects were considered while modelling the thermal transport, including Joule heating, viscous dissipation, and heat generation/absorption. Mass transportation is presented in the presence of a chemical reaction. Different nanoparticle types were mixed in the Carreau–Yasuda liquid in order to study thermal performance. Initially, governing laws were modelled in the form of PDEs. Suitable transformation was engaged for conversion into ODEs and then the resulting ODEs were handled via FEM (Finite Element Method). Grid independent analysis was performed to determine the effectiveness of the chosen methodology. Several important physical effects were explored by augmenting the values of the influential parameters. Heat and mass transfer rates were computed against different parameters and discussed in detail.

Mechanism of Solute and Thermal Characteristics in a Casson Hybrid Nanofluid Based with Ethylene Glycol Influenced by Soret and Dufour Effects

This article models a system of partial differential equations (PDEs) for the thermal and solute characteristics under gradients (concentration and temperature) in the magnetohydrodynamic flow of Casson liquid in a Darcy porous medium. The modelled problems are highly non-linear with convective boundary conditions. These problems are solved numerically with a finite element approach under a tolerance of 10−8. A numerical algorithm (finite element approach) is provided and a numerical procedure is discussed. Convergence is also observed via 300 elements. Simulations are run to explore the dynamics of flow and the transport of heat and mass under parametric variation. To examine the impact of a temperature gradient on the transport of mass and the role of a concentration gradient on the transport of heat energy, simulations are recorded. Remarkable changes in temperature and concentration are noted when Dufour and Soret numbers are varied.

Soret and Dufour effects on a Casson nanofluid flow past a deformable cylinder with variable characteristics and Arrhenius activation energy

In this study, the effects of variable characteristics amalgamated with chemical reaction and Arrhenius activation energy are analyzed on a two-dimensional (2D) electrically conducting radiative Casson nanoliquid flow past a deformable cylinder embedded in a porous medium. The surface of the cylinder is deformable in the radial direction i.e., the z-axis. The impression of Soret and Dufour's effects boosts the transmission of heat and mass. The flow is analyzed numerically with the combined impacts of momentum slip, convective heat, and mass conditions. A numerical solution for the system of the differential equations is attained by employing the bvp4c function in MATLAB. The dimensionless protuberant parameters are graphically illustrated and discussed for the involved profiles. It is perceived that on escalating the velocity slip parameter and porosity parameter velocity field depreciates. Also, on escalating the radiation parameter and heat transfer Biot number a prominent difference is noticed in an upsurge of the thermal field. For growing values of Brownian motion and thermophoretic parameters, temperature field augments. On escalating the curvature parameter and porosity parameter, drag force coefficient upsurges. The outcome of the Soret number, mass transfer Biot number, and activation energy parameter is quite eminent on the concentration distribution for the sheet in comparison to the deformable cylinder. A comparative analysis of the present investigation with an already published work is also added to substantiate the envisioned problem.

Linear and Nonlinear Stability Analyses of Double-Diffusive Convection in a Vertical Brinkman Porous Enclosure under Soret and Dufour Effects

Analytical and numerical investigations were performed to study the influence of the Soret and Dufour effects on double-diffusive convection in a vertical porous layer filled with a binary mixture and subject to horizontal thermal and solute gradients. In particular, the study was focused on the effect of Soret and Dufour diffusion on bifurcation types from the rest state toward steady convective state, and then toward oscillatory convective state. The Brinkman-extended Darcy model and the Boussinesq approximation were employed to model the convective flow within the porous layer. Following past laboratory experiments, the investigations dealt with the particular situation where the solutal and thermal buoyancy forces were equal but acting in opposite direction to favor the possible occurrence of the rest state condition. For this situation, the onset of convection could be either supercritical or subcritical and occurred at given thresholds and following various bifurcation routes. The analytical investigation was based on the parallel flow approximation, which was valid only for a tall porous layer. A numerical linear stability analysis of the diffusive and convective states was performed on the basis of the finite element method. The thresholds of supercritical, RTCsup, and overstable, RTCover, convection were computed. In addition, the stability of the established convective flow, predicted by the parallel flow approximation, was studied numerically to predict the onset of Hopf’s bifurcation, RTCHopf, which marked the transition point from steady toward unsteady convective flows; a route towards the chaos. To support the analytical analyses of the convective flows and the numerical stability methodology and results, nonlinear numerical solutions of the full governing equations were obtained using a second-order finite difference method. Overall, the Soret and Dufour effects were seen to affect significantly the thresholds of stationary, overstable and oscillatory convection. The Hopf bifurcation was marked by secondary convective flows consisting of superposed vertical layers of opposite traveling waves. A good agreement was found between the predictions of the parallel flow approximation, the numerical solution and the linear stability results.

Physical impact of thermo-diffusion and diffusion-thermo on Marangoni convective flow of hybrid nanofluid (MnZiFe2O4–NiZnFe2O4–H2O) with nonlinear heat source/sink and radiative heat flux

The objective of this study is to illustrate the influence of Marangoni convection, nonlinear heat sink/source, thermal radiation, viscous dissipation, activation energy, Soret and Dufour effects on magnetohydrodynamics flow of nanofluid generated by rotating disk. Further, the entropy generation equation is derived as a function of velocity, concentration, and thermal gradients. The governing equations of the model along with associated boundary constraints are reduced to ordinary differential equations by adopting suitable similarity transformation. Later, these equations are tackled numerically by means of shooting technique. The whole examination is performed by using two distinctive nanoparticles of ferrites in particular, manganese zinc ferrite (MnZnFe2O4) and nickel zinc ferrite (NiZnFe2O4) in a carrier liquid [Formula: see text]. The physical characteristics of velocity, thermal, concentration entropy generation, skin friction, and Nusselt number against numerous pertinent parameters are discussed in detail and deliberated graphically. Result reveals that thermal gradient shows substantial enhancement for advanced values of heat sink/source parameter. The entropy production increases with an augmentation in the Brinkman number and Marangoni ratio values. The escalation in Marangoni ratio and Dufour number improves the rate of heat transference.