Magnetohydrodynamic bioconvective Casson nanofluid flow: A numerical simulation by paired ...

A study on the effects of gyrotactic microorganism and nanoparticles in bioconvection magnetohydrodynamic flow of Casson fluid at nonlinear stretching boundary is explored. Irregular heat source/sink, Joule and viscous dissipations, Brownian motion, and thermophoresis are included in energy equation. The model outlining the flow system are nondimensionalised and retained in the same form. The equations are worked out by pairing, i.e first pair momentum and gyrotactic micro-organism density equation and second pair energy and nanoparticle concentration equation. This technique is termed as paired quasilinearisation method (PQLM). Convergence and accuracy of PQLM are shown. Obtained numerical results are sketched in graphs in order to observe further insight into flow pattern. Interesting aspects of various controlling parameters in flow, heat, nanoparticle concentration and microorganism density are discussed.