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Bioconvection Mangnetohydrodynamic Tangent Hyperbolic Nanofluid Flow with Quartic Chemical Reaction Past a Paraboloid Surface

by S. M. Atif¹, W. A. Khan^2,*, Muhammad Abbas^3,*, Umair Rashid⁴

1 Department of Mathematics, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
3 Department of Mathematics, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
4 CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

* Corresponding Authors: W. A. Khan. Email: ; Muhammad Abbas. Email:

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Recent Trends in Nanofluids: Modelling and Simulations)

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2022, 130(1), 205-220. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2022.017304

Received 30 April 2021; Accepted 07 June 2021; Issue published 29 November 2021

Abstract

In this numerical study, the effect of quartic autocatalysis type of chemical reaction, buoyancy force and thermal radiation phenomenon and magnetic effect on tangent hyperbolic nanofluid past an upper horizontal surface of a paraboloid has been studied. By considering the Buongiorno model approach, a diffusion of unequal coefficients in the presence of gyrotactic microorganism is discussed. Implementation of microorganism's idea is used to stabilize the nanoparticles through bioconvection. The modeled PDEs of the problems are converted into nonlinear ODEs with the assistant of the similarity transformations. To tackle nonlinear ODEs, MATLAB package bvp4c is used. In addition, a hallmark of the Matlab code with the reported results in the literature is achieved by benchmarking. The variations in motion, concentration, temperature, and motile density due to sundry parameters have been analyzed in-depth via graphs. Our analysis shows that the density profile of motile of microorganism is hiked with an increment in the bioconvection Rayleigh number but decreases for higher thermal Grashof number.

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