Present research article investigate the heat and mass transfer characteristics of unsteady magnetohydrodynamic Casson nanofluid flow between two parallel plates under the influence of viscous dissipation and first order homogeneous chemical reaction effects. The impacts of thermophoresis and Brownian motion are accounted in the nanofluid model to disclose the salient features of heat and mass transport phenomena. The present physical problem is examined under the presence of Lorentz forces to investigate the effects of magnetic field. Further, the viscous and Joule dissipation effects are considered to describe the heat transfer process. The non-Newtonian behaviour of Casson nanofluid is distinguished from those of Newtonian fluids by considering the well-established rheological Casson fluid model. The twodimensional partial differential equations governing the unsteady squeezing flow of Casson nanofluid are coupled and highly nonlinear in nature. Thus, similarity transformations are imposed on the conservation laws to obtain the nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Runge-Kutta fourth order integration scheme with shooting method and bvp4c techniques have been used to solve the resulting nonlinear flow equations. Numerical results have been obtained and presented in the form of graphs and tables for various values of physical parameters.It is noticed from present investigation that, the concentration field is a decreasing function of thermophoresis parameter. Also, concentration profile enhances with raising Brownian motion parameter. Further, the present numerical results are compared with the analytical and semianalytical results and found to be in good agreement.Brownian motion, Casson nanofluid, Joule dissipation, magnetic field, squeezing flow, thermophoresis
| INTRODUCTIONIn the present days, nanofluids are widely used in most of the industries, technologies, and scientific applications. For an instance, biological solutions, asphalts and glues, melts of polymers and paints, and so forth. Nanofluids are potentially suitable candidates for increasing the heat transfer rate in wide variety of applications. In many of the numerical investigations, nanofluids are treated as common pure fluids. Additionally, nanofluids are considerably used in the squeezing flows for enhancing the heat transfer characteristics. However, the unsteady heat and mass transfer process in squeezing flow of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) viscous incompressible fluid flow between two parallel plates is one of the most important research area in the present days. Since, squeezing flows have plenty of engineering, scientific, and technological applications in most of the thermodynamic industries. For example, lubrication systems, moving pistons, hydrodynamical machines, hydraulic lifts, dispersion and formation, compression and injection, electric motors, cooling towers, reactor fluidization, polymer processing, processing of chemical equipment's, processing of food, crops damage due to freezing, transmission squeezed film and syringes ...