Exploration of three dimensional squeezed flow and heat transfer through a rotating channel with coupled Dufour and Soret influences

This paper scrutinizes the exploration of three dimensional squeezed flow, heat and mass transfer through a rotating channel with coupled Dufour and Soret Influences. During the process of modelling the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow, the effects of viscous dissipation term as well as an applied magnetic field due to an electrically conducting viscous fluid are considered. For the purpose of converting the developed coupled nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) into system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), appropriate similarity transforms are employed. These fully coupled ordinary differential equations are then solved using differential transform method (DTM). Furthermore, the obtained analytical solutions were used to generate symbolic expressions for skin friction coefficients, local Reynolds, Nusselt and Sherwood numbers. Thereafter, controlling agents which include squeezing term, magnetic term, suction term, Dufour and Soret numbers were employed to perform meticulous parametric studies on flow velocities, thermal and concentration profiles. The parametric studies revealed how an increase in magnetic term and a decrease in squeezing number reduced velocity profile by approximately 10 percent. Additionally, continuous decrease of Soret number increases the temperature and concentration profiles. It is envisaged that this study will function as benchmark for subsequent investigations and studies in this research area.