Volume 7, Issue 2

This research is devoted to the peristaltic flow of Eyring-Powell nanofluid in an asymmetric channel. Robins-type (convective) boundary conditions are employed in the presence of mixed convection and magnetic field. The basic equations of Eyring-Powell nanofluid are modeled in wave frame of reference. Long wavelength and low Reynolds number approach is utilized. Numerical solution of the governing problem is computed and analyzed. The effects of various parameters of interest on the velocity, pressure rise, concentration and temperature are discussed and illustrated graphically. Brownian motion parameter and thermophoresis parameter facilitates the increase in temperature of fluid. Biot numbers serve to reduce the temperature at channel walls.

The heat and mass transfer of rotating Casson nanofluid flow is incorporated in the present study. Influence of magnetic field, nonlinear thermal radiation, viscous dissipation and Joule heating effects are taken into the account. A set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations are obtained from the governing partial differential equations with the aid of suitable similarity transformations. The resultant equations are solved for the numerical solution using Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg fourth-fifth order method along with shooting technique. The impact of several existing physical parameter on velocity, temperature and nanofluid concentration profiles are analyzed through graphs and tables in detail. It is found that, velocity component decreases and temperature component increases for rotating parameter.

This research peruses the characteristics of heat and mass transfern of a special non-Newtonian third-grade fluid over a porous convectively-heated shrinking sheet filled with nanoparticles. The Buongiorno model is used for the special non-Newtonian third-grade fluid that includes both the Brownian motion and the thermophoresis effects with non-linear radiation. The nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations are obtained using a suitable transformation. The converted system of equations are then numerically solved using shooting method. The numerically-obtained results for the skin friction, local Nusselt number and the local Sherwood number as well as velocity profile, temperature distribution and concentration of nanoparticle are illustrated for different physical parameters through graphs and tables. On the behalf of the whole studies, final conclusions are made and it is observed that multiple solutions are achieved for certain values of the suction parameter. Further, the non-Newtonian parameter reduces the velocity of the fluid and increases the temperature and the concentration profiles for the first solution while the reverse trend is seen for the second solution. Finally, a comparative analysis is made through previous studies in limiting cases and shown good correlation.

In this paper, a new method modified exponential cubic B - Spline differential quadrature method (mExp-DQM) has been developed for space discretization together with a time integration algorithm for numeric study of (2 + 1) dimensional hyperbolic telegraph equations. The mExp-DQM (i.e., differential quadrature method with modified exponential cubic B-splines as new basis) reduces the problem into an amenable system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), in time. The time integration SSP-RK54 algorithm has been adopted to solve the resulting system of ODEs. The proposed method is shown stable by computing the eigenvalues of the coefficients matrices while the accuracy of the method is illustrated in terms of L 2 and L ∞ error norms for each problem. A comparison of mExp-DQM solutions with the results of the other numerical methods has been carried out for various space sizes and time step sizes.

Systematic construction of fractional ordinary differential equations [FODEs] has gained much attention nowadays research because dimensional homogeneity plays a major role in mathematical modeling. In order to keep up the dimension of the physical quantities, we need some auxiliary parameters. When we utilize auxiliary parameters, the FODE turns out to be more intricate. One of such kind of model is non-homogeneous fractional second order RLC circuit. To solve this kind of complicated FODEs, we need proficient modern analytical method. In this paper, we use two different methods, one is modern and the other is traditional, namely generalized differential transform Method (GDTM) and Laplace transform method (LTM) to obtain the analytical solution of non-homogeneous fractional second order RLC circuit. We present the solution in terms of convergent series. Though GDTM and LTM are capable to produce the exact solution of fractional RLC circuit, great strength of GDTM over LTM is that differential transform of initial conditions occupy the coefficients of first two terms in series solution so that we arrive exact solution with few iterations and also, it does not allow the noise terms while computing the coefficients. Due to this, GDTM takes less time to converge than LTM and it has been demonstrated. Furthermost, we discuss the characteristics of non-homogeneous fractional second order RLC circuit through numerical illustrations.

In this paper, a plankton-fish interaction model is proposed and analyzed with the help of delay differential equations. Firstly, the elementary dynamical properties of the system in the absence of time delay is discussed. Then, we have established the existence of local Hopf-bifurcation as the time delay crosses its threshold value. The explicit results for stability and direction of the bifurcating periodic solution are derived by using normal form theory and center manifold arguments. In addition, special attention is paid to the global continuation of local Hopf bifurcations. Using the global Hopf-bifurcation result of [38] for functional differential equations, we establish the global existence of periodic solutions. The outcomes of the system are validated through numerical simulations in the concluding section.

An analysis illustrating the flow of an Ostwald-de-Waele liquid film on an unsteady stretching sheet under the influence of thermocapillary force, magnetic field and viscous dissipation is carried out. In this study, thermal conductivity is assumed to be a function of fluid temperature. Numerical solutions for the partial differential equations governing the flow are obtained by employing the elegant Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method for certain representative values of controlling parameters, such as thermocapillarity number, magnetic field parameter, etc. Film thickness is calculated for various values of flow parameters. Film thickness of shear thinning fluids is found to be smaller than that of a Newtonian fluid and a converse trend holds true for shear thickening fluids. Thicker films are noticed for increasing values of thermocapillarity number. In the presence of thermocapillary force, an initial decrease in the velocity of a shear thinning fluid occurs before fluid velocity experiences a significant increase towards the free surface. Stronger magnetic field strengths are seen to increase the free surface velocity. Themocapillary force on temperature in a shear thinning fluid is more prominent.