Effect of heat source/sink on MHD flow due to porous rotating disk with variable thickness in the presence of cross diffusion

Abstract

An analysis of steady magnetohydrodynamic axisymmetric flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid due to porous rotating disk with variable thickness in the presence of heat source/sink is presented. Soret and Dufour effects (cross-diffusion) are also considered. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The homotopy analysis method is used to solve the resulting coupled nonlinear equations under appropriate transformed boundary conditions. A parametric study of the physical parameters is made and results are presented through graphs and tables. The results indicate that the thermal boundary layer is thicker for the flow problems having a heat source when compared with that of the problems without a heat source. It is also found that thickness of the disk is having a high impact on fluid velocity, temperature, and concentration. K E Y W O R D S HAM, heat source/sink, MHD, porous medium, rotating disk with variable thickness, Soret-Dufour effects | INTRODUCTIONFluid flow with heat and mass transfer due to rotating disk is a classic problem, which has applications in many technological processes including rotating machinery, computer disk drives, oceanography, lubrication, and crystal growth processes, etc. 1 Von-Karman 2 was the first who identified this problem and solved it by introducing his famous transformations along with the appropriate integral method. Later, Cochran 3 pointed out errors in von-Karman's momentum integral solutions and gave more accurate results. Later on, researchers investigated various physical problems. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] When heat and mass transfer occur at the same time in a moving fluid, a heat flux can also be generated by concentration gradients and this heat flux is known as Dufour effect, whereas mass flux caused by temperature gradient is known as Soret effect. Sravanthi 18 studied magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) slip flow past an exponentially stretching sheet with Soret-Dufour effects. Entropy generation on MHD flow of Powell-Eyring fluid between radially stretching rotating disk with diffusion-thermo and thermodiffusion effects was investigated by Khan et al. 19 Devi et al 20 illustrated the Soret and Dufour effects on MHD slip flow with thermal radiation over a porous rotating infinite disk. Shah et al 21 explored the Dufour and Soret effect on heat and mass transfer with radiative heat flux in a viscous liquid over a rotating disk.Heat source/sink is effective when there is a high temperature difference between the ambient fluid and surface. These effects also help to control the heat transfer. Hayat et al 22 studied the significant consequences of heat generation/absorption in a second-grade fluid due to a rotating disk. Sravanthi and Gorla 23 investigated the effects of heat source/sink on MHD Maxwell nanofluid flow exponentially stretching sheet. Sravanthi 24 illustrated slip flow of nanofluid over a stretching cylinder in the presence of nonlinear...

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