Numerical Simulation for Flow and Heat Transfer of a Nanofluid Over Lubricated Stretchable Surface
Muhammad Noveel Sadiq, M. Sajid, Tasawar Abbas, Khalid Mahmood, Sammar Bashir, Waqar Mahmood
Abstract
The lubricants mostly used in industry have non-Newtonian properties and adhere to a variety of constitutive connections. The power law lubricant, which follows the Ostwald model and is widely used in engineering lubrication, is one of them. In this study the flow analysis of nanofluid in the vicinity of a stagnation point over a lubricated stretching surface has been investigated. The lubrication is provided by a thin layer of variable thickness of power-law fluid. Impact of thermophoresis and Brownian motion is also investigated. To acquire the dimensionless governing equations utilized an appropriate transformation. A newly developed powerful numerical procedure known as Legendre wavelet spectral collocation method (LWSCM) has been employed to acquire the similar solution. A comparison in the special cases between the published and present results substantiate the obtained solutions. Addition of the lubrication enhances the fluid velocity and reduces the temperature of the nanofluid at the stretchable surface.