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Investigation of magnetohydrodynamic nanofluid flow contain motile oxytactic microorganisms over rotating cone

Amir Reza Mogharrebi (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran)
Ali Reza D. Ganji (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran)
Khashayar Hosseinzadeh (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran)
So Roghani (School of New Technologies, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran)
Armin Asadi (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran)
Amin Fazlollahtabar (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran)

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow

ISSN: 0961-5539

Article publication date: 26 January 2021

Issue publication date: 1 November 2021

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of the study is to indicate a three-dimensional convective heat transfer properties evaluation of magnetohydrodynamics nanofluid flow, comprising motile oxytactic microorganisms and nanoparticles, passing through a rotating cone.

Design/methodology/approach

The imposed technique for solving the governing equations is the Runge–Kutta fifth-order method. The main point of this survey is to diagnosis the influence of diverse factors on velocity, temperature distributions and concentration profile. Furthermore, appending the magnetic field, thermal radiation and viscous dissipation in calculations; also, simultaneous involvement of heat absorption and excretion has been represented as novelties.

Findings

The results elucidate that by changing the Peclet number from 1 to 2, the dimensionless concentration of the microorganisms has been diminished by about 34.37%. In addition, variation of the magnetic parameter from 0 to 1 has been resulted in reducing the temperature distribution by about 3.11%.

Originality/value

Recently, attention has been absorbed to adding the motile microorganisms to nanofluid for enhancement of heat transfer and avoiding aggregation of particles. In this regard, the hydrothermal flow of microorganisms has been investigated in this study.

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Citation

Mogharrebi, A.R., D. Ganji, A.R., Hosseinzadeh, K., Roghani, S., Asadi, A. and Fazlollahtabar, A. (2021), "Investigation of magnetohydrodynamic nanofluid flow contain motile oxytactic microorganisms over rotating cone", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 31 No. 11, pp. 3394-3412. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-08-2020-0493

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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