Viscoelastic effect on the triple diffusive oscillatory flow in a fluid-saturated porous layer

Abstract

The combined heat and mass transfer, the so-called thermosolutal convective problem, has become an attractive field of research in many diversified areas. In this paper, for the first time, oscillatory flow analysis has been carried out for triple diffusive viscoelastic fluid flow in a porous medium. A comprehensive model is developed for the modified Darcy–Brinkman–Oldroyd-B fluid, porous medium, Boussinesq approximation, heat and mass transfer across a finite temperature and concentration difference in the chemical potential of two salts. Triple diffusive viscoelastic fluid flows through porous media have grown significantly as this situation occurs in more than a few applications such as improved oil recovery filtration, liquid complex molding, solidification of liquid crystals, cooling of metallic plate in a bath, exotic lubricants and colloidal solutions, polymer processing, chemical and bioengineering industries, among others. The governing coupled nonlinear partial differential equations with boundary constraints represent the modeled flow problem. In addition, these equations are converted into non-dimensional form by employing suitable non-dimensionalizing quantities. The impacts of the pertinent parameters and related dimensionless numbers on the dimensionless velocity, temperature, concentrations, shear stress, heat and mass transfer are examined for both suction and injection cases. It has been found that when the injection level on the heated plate is increased, the shear rate increases for each channel plate. Furthermore, we recognized that the viscoelastic parameters exhibit an opposite kind of behavior on the velocity, temperature, and concentrations fields.