Electro‐osmotic driven flow of Eyring Powell nanofluid in an asymmetric channel

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the electro-osmotic flow of the Eyring-Powell nanofluid under the peristaltic mechanism with the influence of the porous medium in the micro-channel. The modified system is applied externally to an electrical field in the horizontal direction and a magnetic field in the transverse direction. Governing equations of nanofluid flow are formulated, and the assumptions of low Reynolds number and large wavelength approximations are tackled. The resulting coupled non-linear partial differential equations like velocity and temperature equations are solved numerically by the NDSolve command using the computational mathematical software Mathematica. The influence of various important parameters on the velocity of the fluid, the temperature profiles, and the trapping phenomenon are discussed in detail by graphs. Under the influence of Joule heating, the study details the thermal transport process in the fluid. It demonstrates how an increase may significantly improve the momentum transmission in the core region of the microchannel in the volume fraction of the nanoparticles in the fluid.