Abstract
The prime concern of the present investigation includes a numerical approach targeting the study of heat and mass transfer for the flow of magnetic nanofluid based on hydrocarbon (C1-20B) past a rotating porous disk taking into cognizance the various parameters present. The modelled system of equations for the unsteady flow is rendered into the dimensionless non-linear system of differential equations, via suitable transformations. The modelled system of dimensionless equations is numerically solved by MATLAB bvp4c solver. The influence of involved emerging parameters, namely permeability, viscosity variation, rotation, radiation, ferrohydrodynamic interaction, thermophoresis, and Brownian motion parameters on flow regimes has been studied and shown graphically. Moreover, numerical data of the rate of heat and mass transfer and coefficients of skin friction are also mentioned in tabular form. It is found that the tangential velocity is reduced for increasing the value of viscosity variation parameters. The fluid temperature profile shows an increment when we increase the rotation of the disk.
Introduction
During the last six decades, a high tolerance has been found to examine the flow of magnetic nanofluids (MNF) in rotating disk geometry with heat and mass transfer. MNF usually cited as ferrofluids, are colloidal suspension of magnetic nanoparticles of
The originating study due to the infinite rotating disk of ordinary viscous fluid flow has conveyed by Karman 1 . He introduced similarity transformations for reducing the governing modelled equations into dimensionless ordinary differential equations. After his contributions, Cochran 2 improved the solution using the power series approximations. Later, Benton 3 gave improvement to the Cochran results and also elaborated the findings for time dependent flow. Frusteri and Osalusi 4 analyzed the magnetohydrodynamics flow caused by a rotating disk, taking the temperature dependent fluid properties. Moreover, the research work on the fluid flow with different characteristics over a rotating disk was published by many authors5–11
The depth and temperature dependent viscosity (geothermal viscosity) has many application in the geosciences for which a vanity of research work with geothermal viscosity have been published. Torrance and Turcotte 12 studied the impact of variable viscosity (temperature and depth dependent) on thermal convection in a fluid layer. Further, Maleque 13 described the impacts of combined depth and temperature dependent viscosity for MHD fluid flow past a rotating disk system. In this direction, many authors14–17 reported their findings.
Flow of fluid and heat-transfer in rotator-stator system are of major significance in turbomachinery control, for example, gas turbine cooling 18 where air flow is used for cooling in the space between adjacent surface and turbine disk. Herrero et al. 19 analyzed heat-transfer for co-rotating disks, which has great importance in machinery namely, in the computer disk drive. By taking the variable fluid properties for the geometry of rotating disk, Osalusi and Sibanda 20 focused on hydrodynamic viscous fluid flow. Subsequently, by considering different physical effects, various findings are published on flow of fluid and heat transfer by many researchers21–27.
In the last few years, on a rotating surface, the heat transfer and thermal radiation characteristics have been studied extensively due to its enormous application in engineering industries, thermal energy plants, building construction, solar energy collectors etc. Joshi et al. 28 discussed thermal radiation along with variable viscosity effects on the unsteady flow of MNF. Also, the effect of Powell-Eyring fluid flow was discussed by Vafai et al. 29 with radiation and Soret-Dufour effects.
Mass transfer finds great importance in various engineering such as chemical engineering, radiation engineering, heat transfer engineering etc. In a rotating disk and cone-disk system; Shevchuk 30 , and Turkyilmazoglu and Senel 31 explored the findings for both heat and mass transfer. Mushtaq and Mustafa 32 described the Brownian motion and thermophoresis consequence on the flow of electric conducting nanofluid. Further, these consequences in the study of an incompressible hybrid nanofluid flow were reported by Tassaddiq et al. 33 . Lately, Reddy et al. 34 investigated these phenomenon of unsteady hybrid nanofluid flow driven by thermal radiation.
The present work focused on the hydrocarbon based MNF flow past a rotating disk in a porous medium with heat and mass transfer. Important aspects of depth and temperature dependent viscosity, Brownian motion, thermal radiation, chemical reaction, and thermophoresis impacts are taken into consideration. The disk with magnetic field
Mathematical Formulation of Flow Problem
Consider the three-dimensional, unsteady, axi-symmetric, incompressible boundary layer MNF flow over a rotating disk. Here, we considered cylindrical coordinates
The system of equations for the considered unsteady ferrohydrodynamic boundary layer flow28,35 is as follows:
Assumptions and Solution of the Problem
Unsteady boundary layer flow of MNF over the rotating disk is considered. For finding the solution of flow equations (1)–(6), we need expression for magnetization Assuming that the applied magnetic field The centrifugal force on the MNF flow over rotating disk is approximated by the pressure force in radial direction
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, i.e. For the radiative heat flux The magnetic scalar potential of magnetic field
We are interested to find numerical solution for the above flow problem. Therefore, for nondimensionalized the governing system of equations, the similarity transformations are defined as:
Considering the following similarity transformations:
Physical Parameters of Practical Interest
The physical dimensionless parameters like skin-friction coefficients, Nusselt number and Sherwood number are calculated for the considered flow problem. By using Newtonian expression, the radial
Results and Discussion
Unsteady flow of hydrocarbon based MNF (C1-20B) is considered for the current investigation. The solution for the modelled system is computed numerically in MATLAB environment using algorithm of bvp4c solver. The effects of governing physical parameters are high-lighted graphically. Here, the figures describes the consequence of involving parameters on the radial
Table 1 demonstrates the findings of radial
The radial and tangential skin-friction coefficients for various dimensionless parameters.
The Nusselt number for the various dimensionless parameters.
The Sherwood number for the various dimensionless parameters.
To estimate the accuracy and justify computation of the numerical model, the computed values of heat transfer coefficient has been compared (Table 4) with Gregg and Sparrow 38 , and Maleque 13 ; and conclusively, a very good consent with results is observed here.
Comparison of heat transfer coefficient when;
Here, effects of thermal radiation and pressure force in radial direction have been neglected.
Figures 2–6 demonstrate the distribution of

Geometrical Representation of Flow Problem on a Rotating Disk.

Radial velocity profile for viscosity parameters.

Tangential velocity profile for viscosity parameters.

Axial velocity profile for viscosity parameters.

Temperature profile for viscosity parameters.

Concentration profile for viscosity parameters.
The rotation parameter
In fluid dynamics, permeability is a characteristic of the porous material to permit the fluid flow through it. Effect of permeability parameter on
The radiation parameter
The relative amount of kinematic viscosity to heat-diffusivity is defined as Prandtl number
Supplementary Figures 22 and 23 illustrate the role of the parameter
Fluid temperature got increment while nanoparticle concentration diminish before
The influence of Lewis parameter
Conclusion
Unsteady ferrohydrodynamic flow of MNF based on hydrocarbon (C1-20B) past a porous rotating disk has been studied. The investigations reveal many fascinating results concerning the impacts of temperature and depth dependent viscosity, Brownian motion, thermal radiation, thermophoresis and chemical reaction on MNF flow. The dominant conclusion of the current investigation are observed as:
The radial velocity profile rises and tends to its steady state when we enter into variable geothermal viscosity from the uniform viscosity Increment in the rotation parameter enhance the radial and azimuthal velocity outlines and decrease the vertical velocity outline. The radial flow is dominant when we increase the rotation of the disk. A higher value of permeability parameter diminishes the radial and azimuthal velocity and enhance the vertical velocity. Fluid temperature diminishes due to increase in permeability parameter while it rise due to all other considered parameters. The Brownian motion Concentration distribution shows dual behaviour for the viscosity-variation parameters, permeability parameter, rotation parameter, thermophoresis parameter, radiation parameter, Lewis number, and Prandtl number. For the parameter of Brownian motion, an increasing function is seen for the nanoparticle concentration. The concentration profile displays the decline curve for higher values of chemical reaction parameter. The value of radial and tangential skin-friction rises coefficients when we increase the value of viscosity vaiation parameters.
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