GYROTACTIC MICROORGANISMS FREE CONVECTION BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW ABOUT A VERTICAL TRUNCATED CONE IN NANOFLUID POROUS MEDIA

Authors

  • A. MAHDY
  • H. M. ELSHEHABEY

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52292/j.laar.2018.259

Keywords:

Bioconvection, truncated cone, gyrotactic microorganisms,, nanofluid, boundary layer

Abstract

 A non-similar boundary layer analysis is presented to examine the natural convection flow over a truncated cone with fixed apex half angle; pointing downwards in a nanofluid saturated porous medium contains gyrotactic microorganisms. A suitable coordinate transformation is performed, and the obtained non-similar equations are solved by fourth order Runge–Kutta method technique coupled with shooting scheme. The effects of the thermophoresis parameter, Brownian parameter, Lewis number, bioconvection Peclet number, bioconvection Lewis number, bioconvection Rayleigh number and buoyancy ratio on the reduced Nusselt, Sherwood and density of motile microorganisms numbers have been studied. A comprehensive numerical computation is carried out for various values of the parameters that describe the flow characteristics.

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Published

2019-10-11

Issue

Vol. 48 No. 1 (2018): Latin American Applied Research

Section

Chemical Engineering

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