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DOI: 10.31248/AJPS
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Energy transfer models of iron (II, III) oxide nanofluid in a chemically reacting porous medium
https://doi.org/10.31248/AJPS2025.120 | Article Number: AB19CDD11 | Vol.6 (4) - August 2025
Received Date: 13 May 2025 | Accepted Date: 04 July 2025 | Published Date: 30 August 2025
Authors: Samson Osinachi NWADIBIA , Alalibo Thompson NGIANGIA and Hilary Patrick OBONG
Keywords: nanofluid, Iron (II) Oxide nanoparticle, water-based fluid, rectangular system, MHD.
The study of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) nanofluid flow in a rectangular channel is presented using a numerical approach based on a mathematical model developed by combining the models of thermal conductivities and effective viscosity in addition to electroconductivity term and the approximation for the radiative heat flux vector for an optically thin medium at low density, was also deployed in the formalism. The resulting sets of partial differential equations were nondimensionalized based on the Buckingham-π using pertinent hydrodynamic variables, the coupled equations were solved using the Laplace Transform Technique for temperature, concentration and velocity. Graphical results presented show that the concentration, temperature are enhanced while the velocity diminishes as the nanoparticle volume fraction increases. The velocity increases alongside temperature as the parameter of the radiation term increases. The velocity field decreases along the axis and further decrease further as electroconductivity of the nanofluid increase. Furthermore, the velocity of the nanofluid decreases along the axis for all values of the Hartmann number. Implication of finding of the study is that the velocity of electrically conducting fluid is dampen as the conductivity and magnetic field intensity increase.
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