Entropy Analysis in MHD Flow with Heat Source and Thermal Radiation Past a Stretching Sheet in a Porous Medium

Abstract:

In this paper, we conducted the thermodynamics first and second laws analyses on hydromagnetic boundary layer flow of an incompressible electrically conducting viscous fluid past a vertically stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium with heat source and thermal radiation. The governing equations describing the problem are converted to a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations using appropriate similarity variables. Using shooting technique coupled with Runge-Kutta-Ferhlberg integration scheme, the model boundary value problem is numerically tackled. The parametric effects on fluid velocity, temperature, skin friction, Nusselt number, entropy generation rate and the Bejan number are presented graphically and discussed quantitatively. Our results revealed among others, that the entropy generation is enhanced by magnetic field, thermal radiation and heat source but lessened by increasing porous medium permeability and buoyancy force.

• Periodical: Defect and Diffusion Forum (Volume 387)
• Pages: 364-372
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.387.364
• Online since: September 2018
• Authors: Oluwole Daniel Makinde, Adetayo Samuel Eegunjobi*
• Keywords: Entropy Analysis, Heat Source, MHD, Porous Medium, Stretching Sheet, Thermal Radiation

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