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MWCNTs/SWCNTs Nanofluid Thin Film Flow over a Nonlinear Extending Disc: OHAM Solution

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The aim of this research is the improvement towards the consumption of energy in the field of engineering and industry. The efforts have been paid to the enhancement of heat transmission and cooling process through a nanofluid coating of a nonlinear stretching disc. The combination of Water (H2O) and multiple walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) / single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) have been used as a nanofluid. The spreading of a thin nano-layer with variable thickness over a nonlinear and radially stretching surface has been considered. The estimated results of the problem have been accomplished using the Optimal Homotopy Analysis Method (OHAM). The residual errors of the OHAM method have been shown physically and numerically. The important physical parameters of skin friction and Nusselt number have been calculated and discussed. The other embedding parameters like generalized magnetic parameter, Prantl number, nanofluid volume fraction and Eckert number have been intended and discussed.

The obtained results have been compared with the Numerical (ND-Solve) method for both sorts of CNTs. The closed agreement of both methods has been achieved.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, City University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar P/C, 25000, Pakistan

    Gul Taza, Shuaib Muhammad & Altaf Khan Muhammad

  2. Higher Education Department, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Peshawar, 25000, Pakistan

    Gul Taza

  3. Department of Mathematics, Islamia College, Peshawar, 25000, Pakistan

    Khan Waris

  4. Department of Mathematics, Kumasi Technical University, Kumasi Ghana, 23321, Pakistan

    Bonyah Ebenezer

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Gohar., Taza, G., Waris, K. et al. MWCNTs/SWCNTs Nanofluid Thin Film Flow over a Nonlinear Extending Disc: OHAM Solution. J. Therm. Sci. 28, 115–122 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-018-1075-3

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