Entropy Generation on Nanofluid Flow through a Horizontal Riga Plate

• Main Authors: Tehseen Abbas, Muhammad Ayub, Muhammad Mubashir Bhatti, Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi, Mohamed El-Sayed Ali
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2016-06-01
• Series: Entropy
• Subjects: nanofluid; Riga plate; entropy generation; shooting method
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/18/6/223

In this article, entropy generation on viscous nanofluid through a horizontal Riga plate has been examined. The present flow problem consists of continuity, linear momentum, thermal energy, and nanoparticle concentration equation which are simplified with the help of Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation. The resulting highly nonlinear coupled partial differential equations are solved numerically by means of the shooting method (SM). The expression of local Nusselt number and local Sherwood number are also taken into account and discussed with the help of table. The physical influence of all the emerging parameters such as Brownian motion parameter, thermophoresis parameter, Brinkmann number, Richardson number, nanoparticle flux parameter, Lewis number and suction parameter are demonstrated graphically. In particular, we conferred their influence on velocity profile, temperature profile, nanoparticle concentration profile and Entropy profile.