Paper Info
Title
Dual Solutions and Stability Analysis of a Hybrid Nanofluid over a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet Executing MHD Flow
Abstract
In this paper, the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of hybrid nanofluid (HNF) composed of Cu-Al2O3/water in the presence of a thermal radiation effect over the stretching/shrinking sheet is investigated. Using similarity transformation, the governing partial differential equations (PDEs) are transformed into a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), which are then solved by using a shooting method. In order to validate the obtained numerical results, the comparison of the results with the published literature is made numerically as well as graphically and is found in good agreements. In addition, the effects of many emerging physical governing parameters on the profiles of velocity, temperature, skin friction coefficient, and heat transfer rate are demonstrated graphically and are elucidated theoretically. Based on the numerical results, dual solutions exist in a specific range of magnetic, suction, and unsteadiness parameters. It was also found that the values of f "(0) rise in the first solution and reduce in the second solution when the solid volume fraction phi Cu is increased. Finally, the temporal stability analysis of the solutions is conducted, and it is concluded that only the first solution is stable.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/sym12020276
SYMMETRY-BASEL
Keywords
DocType
Volume
dual solutions,stability analysis,HNF,magnetic field,thermal radiation
Journal
12
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liaquat Ali Lund103.72
Zurni Omar204.73
Ilyas Khan32525.71
El-Sayed M. Sherif402.70