Research Article
Numerical Solutions for Laminar Boundary Layer Nanofluid
Flow along with a Moving Cylinder with Heat Generation,
Thermal Radiation, and Slip Parameter
Titilayo Morenike Agbaje and Gilbert Makanda
Center for Sustainable Smart Cities, Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Central University of Technology,
Free State, Private Bag X20539, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
Correspondence should be addressed to Titilayo Morenike Agbaje; titilayoagbaje@gmail.com
Received 15 April 2021; Accepted 5 November 2021; Published 1 December 2021
Academic Editor: Fasma Diele
Copyright © 2021 Titilayo Morenike Agbaje and Gilbert Makanda. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative
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The investigation of the numerical solution of the laminar boundary layer flow along with a moving cylinder with heat generation,
thermal radiation, and surface slip effect is carried out. The fluid mathematical model developed from the Navier-Stokes equations
resulted in a system of partial differential equations which were then solved by the multidomain bivariate spectral
quasilinearization method (MD-BSQLM). The results show that increasing the velocity slip factor results in an enhanced
increase in velocity and temperature profiles. Increasing the heat generation parameter increases temperature profiles;
increasing the radiation parameter and the Eckert numbers both increase the temperature profiles. The concentration profiles
decrease with increasing radial coordinate. Increasing the Brownian motion and the thermophoresis parameter both
destabilizes the concentration profiles. Increasing the Schmidt number reduces temperature profiles. The effect of increasing
selected parameters: the velocity slip, Brownian motion, and the radiation parameter on all residual errors show that these
errors do not deteriorate. This shows that the MD-BSQLM is very accurate and robust. The method was compared with
similar results in the literature and was found to be in excellent agreement.
1. Introduction
The boundary layer flow on heat and mass transfer has been
overmoving, and stretching surfaces have been studied and
remained an active area in the past decade. This is because
it has numerous applications in areas such as hot rolling,
processes of polymer extrusions, wire drawing, extrusions
in aerodynamic plastic sheets, process of condensation in
metallic plates during cooling, and many other applications.
According to Poply et al. [1], the study of flows in cylinders
is considered two-dimensional when the cylinder radius is
much larger than the boundary layer thickness. For lean
and thin cylinders, the two dimensions may be of the same
order; in this case, the flow is referred to as axisymmetric
rather than two-dimensional. These dimensions affect veloc-
ity, temperature, and concentration profiles which in turn
affect the skin friction coefficient.
In light of the importance of laminar boundary layer
fluid flow, many researchers have considered several flow
geometries with different boundary conditions, using many
different techniques to solve similar models. These include
the research carried out by Shateyi and Marewo [2] who
used the successive linearization method (SRM) to solve a
problem on laminar boundary layer flow and heat transfer
in nonlinear differential equations; they also considered
stretching cylinder, porous media, and thermal conductivity.
In their investigation, they observed that the curvature sig-
nificantly affects temperature and velocity fields. Also, both
the skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number
increase as the curvature increases. Rangi and Naseem [3]
used the Keller-box technique to solve the equations describ-
ing boundary layer flow of heat transfer with nonconstant
thermal conductivity along with a stretching cylinder. Their
results also showed that the cylinder curvature affects
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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2021, Article ID 8288534, 18 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/8288534