ANALYTICAL STUDY OF HEAT TRANSFER ON FLOW OF A NANOFLUID IN A POROUS MEDIUM WITH HEAT GENERATION

Abstract

Analytical study of heat transfer on flow of a nanofluid in a porous medium with heat generation is presented. The partial differential equation representing the problem was reduced to ordinary differential equation using some similarity transformation variables. The transformed equations were solved using the Adomian decomposition method which results were compared with existing results in the literatures. A good agreement was established between the new method and the existing ones, which shows the reliability of the present method. The physical parameters that occurred in the solutions such as magnetic parameter, Darcy number, Ekcert number, Prandtl number, Schmdt number were varied to determine their respective effects on the flow. It was observe that the Magnetic pameter and inverse Darcy number are all reduction agents of the fluid velocity.