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Magnetohydrodynamic Mixed Convection on Cu-nanofluid Over a Cone in a Suspension of Different Water Temperatures

RVMSS Kiran Kumar, Sibyala Vijaya Kumar Varma, Chakravarthula Siva Krishnam Raju, Shaik Mohammed Ibrahim, Giulio Lorenzini

Nanofluids are Nanoscale colloidal suspensions containing condensed nanomaterials. These fluids enhanced the thermal and physical properties in many areas. With this intention, we study the magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection flow over a cone in the presence of non-uniform heat source/sink and thermal radiation. In this study, we consider Cu-water nanofluid at 50�C and 10�C temperature variations. The model; used for the nanofluid is one which includes the Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects. The self-similarity transformed governing equations are solved by using Runge-Kutta technique. The physical characteristics namely, the friction factor coefficient, the rate of heat and mass transfer coefficients , velocity, temperature and concentration fields are discussed and analyzed through graphs and tables. Results indicate that the Cu-water nanofluid enhanced the temperature profiles at 50�C when comparison with 10�C for all flow parameters. Also, found that the heat transfer rate is higher at 10�C temperature when compared with the temperature at 50�C.