Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Mathematics, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, 23200, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. noorsaeedkhankhattak@gmail.com
  • 2 Department of Basic Sciences and Islamiyat, University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar, 25000, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
  • 3 Faculty of Engineering, Lincoln University College (LUC), Lincoln, 1440, Malaysia
  • 4 KMUTTFixed Point Research Laboratory, Room SCL 802 Fixed Point Laboratory, Science Laboratory Building, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Bangkok, 10140, Thailand. poom.kum@kmutt.ac.th
  • 5 Renewable Energy Research Center, Department of Teacher Training in Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technical Education, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, 1518, Wongsawang, Bangsue, Bangkok, 10800, Thailand
  • 6 Computational Optics Research Group, Advanced Institute of Materials Science, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, 700000, Vietnam. irajsadeghamiri@tdtu.edu.vn
Sci Rep, 2020 Mar 10;10(1):4448.
PMID: 32157121 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61172-2

Abstract

Buongiorno's nanofluid model is followed to study the bioconvection in two stretchable rotating disks with entropy generation. Similarity transformations are used to handle the problem equations for non-dimensionality. For the simulation of the modeled equations, Homotopy Analysis Method is applied. The biothermal system is explored for all the embedded parameters whose effects are shown through different graphs. There exists interesting results due to the effects of different parameters on different profiles. Radial velocity decreases with increasing stretching and magnetic field parameters. Temperature increases with Brownian motion and thermophoresis parameters. Nanoparticles concentration decreases on increasing Lewis number and thermophoresis parameter while motile gyrotactic microorganisms profile increases with increasing Lewis and Peclet numbers. Convergence of the solution is found and good agreement is obtained when the results are compared with published work.

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