Effect of thin film thickness of ferrofluid on inclined bioconvective flow

Abstract

This research examines the effect of variable thin film thickness on the bioconvective ferrofluid flow through a rotating sloped surface when a magnetic field (dipole) is present. Similarity transformation is used to standardize the current model's governing equations. By using a finite element method, the normalized nonlinear differential equations are numerically solved. Variable thickness of ferrofluid thin film and bioconvective parameters (bioconvective Lewis number, bioconvective Peclet number, and micro-organism concentration difference) yield the following results: velocity profiles (radial, tangential, and axial), gravity flow (drainage velocity and induced velocity), temperature profile, concentration profile and microorganism profile. In addition, this investigation examines the density of moving microorganisms as well as local heat and mass transport. The temperature, concentration, radial, axial, drainage, induced, and motile microbe velocity are all improved with increasing film thickness. Variable thickness increases local heat transfer whereas increasing Brownian motion and thermophoresis parameters decreases it. This study could be helpful for self-sterilizing applications and biomedical engineering.