Peristaltic transport of nanofluid in a compliant wall channel with convective conditions and thermal radiation

Impact of thermal radiation on peristaltic transport of nanofluid in a channel satisfying wall properties and convective conditions is investigated. The considered model of nanofluid includes the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. Long wavelength and low Reynolds number approach is followed in the mathematical modeling and development of solutions. Shooting technique is implemented for the numerical solutions of resulting nonlinear differential systems. The salient features of pertinent parameters like Brownian motion parameter, thermophoresis parameter, thermal radiation parameter, Prandtl number and Eckert number on the physical quantities of interest are discussed. It is found that the influence of thermal radiation parameter and the Biot number on the temperature and concentration are quite opposite. Further the heat transfer coefficient decreases when thermal radiation parameter is increased. (c) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.