Analysis of magnetic and non-magnetic nanoparticles with Newtonian/non-Newtonian base fluids over a nonlinear stretching sheet

Abstract

An unsteady mixed convectional boundary layer flow of a Casson nanofluid having magnetic ( Fe3 O4) and non-magnetic ( Al2 O3) nanoparticles suspension within two different types of base fluids, water (Newtonian) and sodium alginate (non-Newtonian), which incorporates viscous dissipation effects over a nonlinear stretching sheet with magnetic field effects. Some suitable non-dimensional similarity transformations are applied to convert the governing coupled nonlinear partial differential equations into a set of ordinary differential equations and then solved by using differential transformation method in association with Pade-approximation. A comparison has been made with already published results to assure the validity and reliability of the computational results, good agreement is found between the current and previous studies. The impacts of different physical parameters active on flow, temperature, and nanoparticle concentration have been discussed both numerically and graphically. The impact of radiation, internal heat sink/source, viscous, and ohmic dissipation was discussed for magnetic and non-magnetic nanofluid categories. We have also presented the tabular results of various emerging parameters to discuss the nature of skin friction, Nusselt, and Sherwood numbers. It was observed that performance of non-Newtonian (sodium alginate) fluid in heat and mass transfer is slightly better than Newtonian (water) based fluid but no major difference was seen in heat and mass transfer when comparison was made with magnetic and non-magnetic nanoparticles.