Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty of Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran | Young Researchers and Elite Club, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan, Iran | Department of Engineering and Mathematics, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England, UK | Mechanical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty of Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran | Bio-Engineering Mechanics Research, Bradford, England, UK
Note: [] Corresponding author: M.M. Rashidi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty of Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. E-mail: mm_rashidi@yahoo.com
Note: [] Corresponding author: O. Anwar Bég, Director, Biomechanics and Biotechnology Research, Aerospace Engineering, Department of Engineering and Mathematics, Sheaf Building, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK, England. Tel.: +98 811 8257409; Fax: +98 811 8257400; E-mail: o.beg@shu.ac.uk
Abstract: The magneto-hemodynamic laminar viscous flow of a conducting physiological fluid in a semi-porous channel under a transverse magnetic field has been analyzed by the optimal Homotopy Analysis Method (OHAM) and Differential Transform Method (DTM) under physically realistic boundary conditions first. Then as the main purpose of this study the important designing subject, entropy generation of this system, has been analyzed. The influence of Hartmann number (Ha) and transpiration Reynolds number (mass transfer parameter, Re) on the fluid velocity profiles in the channel are studied in detail first. After finding the fluid velocity profiles, graphical results are presented to investigate effects of the Reynolds number, Hartmann number, x-velocity of the moving plate, suspension height and dimensionless horizontal coordinate on the entropy generation.
