Entropy Generation Analysis of Peristaltic Flow and Heat Transfer of a Jeffery Nanofluid in a Horizontal Channel under Magnetic Environment

A mathematical model is developed to examine the behaviors of a peristalsis flow with nanoparticles in a symmetric channel under the magnetic environment. Here, the nanofluid is electrically conducted through an external magnetic field. Thermal radiation and Joule heating effects are also retained in the present analysis. Under the lubrication approach, the reduced nonlinear systems are obtained. Then, they are solved very efficiently by means of a homotopy analysis method-based package BVPh 2.0. The influences of important physical parameters on the flow behaviors are presented. Analysis of the entropy generation is illustrated. It is found that the Brownian diffusion and the thermophoresis are the two most important nanoparticle slip mechanisms in the Jeffery fluids as well. Besides, the Hartman number, the type of the Jeffery fluid, the Brinkman number, and the thermal radiation parameter play important roles on flow behaviors. Results show that the temperature profile enhanced but the nanoparticles’ volume fraction profiles lowered with increase in the Hartman number. However, using the Jeffery nanofluid induces effect on the velocity distribution that decreases with the increase in the Jeffery fluid parameter. It is also found that the generated total entropy increases with an increase in the Brownian motion parameter but with a decrease in the thermophoresis parameter.