Ferro-Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer over Unsteady Stretching Sheet in the Presence of a Nonuniform Magnetic Field
摘要
Ferrofluids have extensive applications in various fields such as electronic packaging, mechanical and thermal engineering, aerospace, and biotechnology due to their unique properties. This study investigates the magneto-thermomechanical interaction between a viscous, incompressible ferrofluid and a heated, stretching sheet in the presence of a nonuniform magnetic field. The focus is on the laminar flow and heat transfer within the boundary layer of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluid resulting from an unsteady stretching sheet with extended heat flux. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into a system of coupled, nonlinear ordinary differential equations using dimensionless transformations. The Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM) is employed to solve this system. The study examines the effects of magneto-thermomechanical interactions on the velocity and temperature boundary layer profiles, as well as their impact on heat transfer and wall skin friction. The results show that an increase in the ferrohydrodynamic interaction parameter (