Research Article
Significance of MHD Radiative Non-Newtonian Nanofluid
Flow towards a Porous Channel: A Framework of the Casson
Fluid Model
N. Thamaraikannan ,
1
S. Karthikeyan,
1
and Dinesh Kumar Chaudhary
2
1
Department of Mathematics, Erode Arts and Science College, Erode 638 009, Tamilnadu, India
2
Department of Physics, Amrit Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Correspondence should be addressed to N. amaraikannan; kthamkar@gmail.com and Dinesh Kumar Chaudhary; din.2033@
gmail.com
Received 1 April 2021; Accepted 18 May 2021; Published 7 June 2021
Academic Editor: Riaz Ahmad
Copyright © 2021 N. amaraikannan et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
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properly cited.
e effect of various parameters in the unsteady pulsating flow of radiative hydromagnetic Casson nanofluid through a porous
channel is investigated. e governing equations were nondimensionalized by applying suitable transformations. e pertur-
bation technique was employed to solve the resulting similarity equations. e velocity and temperature fields are illustrated for
several pertinent flow parameters. e fluid velocity has been enhancing for higher values of the frequency parameter, Casson fluid
parameter, nanoparticle volume fraction, and Darcy number. e reverse impact is observed for larger values of the Hartmann
number. e result reveals that adding the nanoparticles has enhanced the heat transfer of the base fluid as the nanoparticles
increase the heat conductivity. Furthermore, it is noticed that the temperature profile decreases rapidly for higher values of the
cross Reynolds number and the radiation parameter. Finally, an excellent agreement between the current results and previous
results is obtained by comparing with the available limiting results in the literature.
1. Introduction
Nanofluid consists of the uniform composition of solid
particles whose dimension is in the range of 1 to 100 nm. e
heat transfer characteristics of nanofluid will be controlled
by low thermal conductivity. Due to this constraint, the heat
transfer ability of conventional heat transfer fluids such as
water, lubricant oil, and ethylene glycol has been highly
limited since they provided low thermal conductivity.
Generally, metals exhibit higher thermal conductivity than
typical heat transfer fluids. Mixing low-dimension metallic
particles (nanoparticles) with fluids will help increase the
thermal conductivity. is process is identified as an in-
novative technique for enhancing the heat transfer coeffi-
cient. Choi [1] attempted this first and succeeded. Nisar et al.
[2] investigated the steady flow with heat diffusion of blood
which transmits the micropolar nanoliquid with gold
particles through a curved shrinking/stretched surface with
the impact of radiation. ey suggested that nanoparticle-
containing gold can treat cancer as these materials have a
lofty atomic quantity that produces the temperature guide to
the handling of malignant tumours. e heat transfer be-
haviors in the presence of the magnetic field were investi-
gated using the finite-element method by Sheikholeslami
et al. [3]. Dogonchi et al. [4] examined the magnetohy-
drodynamic (MHD) flow of nanofluid and heat transmission
between two surfaces by taking into account the Joule heat
effects. eir study has identified an increase in the con-
centration, Nusselt number, and temperature profiles with
an increase in the magnitude of the Schmidt number.
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is a branch of dynamics
which deals with fluids during electrical conduction, such as
electrolytes, plasmas, and liquid metals. e primary prin-
ciple of MHD is to produce forces in the fluid when the
Hindawi
Journal of Mathematics
Volume 2021, Article ID 9912239, 15 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9912239