Abstract
It is a well-known fact that functional effects like relaxation and retardation of materials, and heat transfer phenomena occur in a wide range of industrial and engineering problems. In this context, a mathematical model is developed in the view of Caputo fractional derivative for Oldroyd-B nano-fluid. Nano-sized particles of copper (Cu) are used to prepare nano-fluid taking water as the base fluid. The coupled non-linear governing equations of the problem are transformed into dimensionless form. Finite difference scheme is developed and applied successfully to get the numerical solutions of deliberated problem. Influence of different physical parameters on fluid velocity profile and temperature profile are analyzed briefly. It is observed that for increasing values of fractional parameter (
), fluid velocity increased, but opposite behavior was noticed for temperature profile. Nusselt number (Nu) decayed for advancement in values of heat source/sink parameter (
), radiation parameter (Nr), volume fraction parameter of nano-fluid (
), and viscous dissipation parameter (Ec). Skin friction (
) boosts for the increase in the values of magnetic field parameter (Ha). It can also be noticed that the extended finite difference scheme is an efficient tool and gives the accurate results of discussed problem. It can be extended for more numerous type heat transfer problems arising in physical nature with complex geometry.