Title of article :
Analysis of Entropy Generation in Hydromagnetic Micropolar Fluid Flow over an Inclined Nonlinear Permeable Stretching Sheet with Variable Viscosity
Author/Authors :
Fatunmbi, Ephesus Olusoji Department of Mathematics and Statistics - Federal Polytechnic - Ilaro, Nigeria , Salawu, Sulyman Olakunle Department of Mathematics - Landmark University - Omu-Aran, Nigeria
Abstract :
A numerical analysis is performed on entropy generation in a radiative and dissipative hydromagnetic
micropolar fluid prompted by a nonlinearly stretching sheet with the impact of non-uniform heat source/sink, variable
magnetic field, electrical conductivity, and dynamic viscosity. The main equations are computationally solved via
shooting techniques in the company with Runge-Kutta algorithms. The impact of the prominent controlling parameters
is graphically checked on the velocity, temperature, microrotation, entropy generation, and Bejan number. An excellent
relationship exists between the results obtained with related studies previously reported in the literature in the limiting
conditions. More so, it is revealed by the findings that the irreversibility due to heat transfer is dominant over viscous
dissipation irreversibility as the radiation parameter advances while the trend changes with the Brikman number
parameter.
Keywords :
Stretching sheet , Variable viscosity , Inclined sheet , Micropolar fluid , Entropy generation
Journal title :
Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics