Mathematical approach to study heat and mass transfer effects in transport phenomena of a non-Newtonian fluid.

The paper deals with a theoretical investigation of the peristaltic transport of a couple-stress fluid with heat and mass transfer effects. The velocity, pressure drop, time averaged flux, frictional force, mechanical efficiency, temperature profile, nanoparticle phenomena, heat transfer coefficient and mass transfer coefficient of the fluid are investigated, when the Reynold's number is small and wave length is large by using appropriate analytical methods. Effects of different physical parameters like couple-stress fluid parameters, Brownian motion parameter, thermophoresis parameter, local temperature Grashof number as well as local nanoparticle Grashof number on pressure drop characteristics, frictional force, mechanical efficiency, heat transfer coefficient, mass transfer coefficient, steam line patterns and velocity profiles of the fluid are studied. The expressions for velocity, temperature profile, nanoparticle phenomenon, heat transfer coefficient and mass transfer coefficients are sketched through graphs in two as well as in three dimensional views. The streamlines are drawn to discuss trapping phenomenon for some physical quantities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]