%0 Journal Article
%T Unsteady three
%A Ahmad Izani Md Ismail
%A Md Faisal Md Basir
%A Mohammed Jashim Uddin
%J Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part N: Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanoengineering and Nanosystems
%@ 2397-7922
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2397791418817844
%X Unsteady three-dimensional laminar stagnation point forced convective boundary layer magnetohydrodynamic flow of a bionanofluid with variable transport properties is studied theoretically and numerically. Thermal convective and zero mass flux boundary conditions are incorporated in this study. The transport properties are assumed to be a function of nanoparticle volume fraction to get physically realistic results. The dimensional boundary layer equations along with the coupled boundary conditions are transformed via similarity transformations into a system of ordinary differential equations. The transformed equations are solved numerically using the Runge¨CKutta¨CFehlberg fourth-, fifth-order numerical method. The effect of selected governing parameters, namely, viscosity, thermal conductive, mass diffusivity, microorganism diffusivity, magnetic field and bioconvection Schmidt number, on the dimensionless velocity, temperature, nanoparticle volume fraction, microorganism, skin friction coefficient, heat transfer rate, mass transfer rate and microorganism transfer rate, is illustrated graphically and interpreted in detail. Comparisons with previous works are carried out for some limiting cases and found to be in good agreement
%K Magnetohydrodynamic
%K stagnation point
%K variable transport properties
%K unsteady
%K nanofluid
%K bioconvection
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2397791418817844