Chemical Reaction Effects on MHD Nanofluid Flow of a Convection Slip in a Saturated Porous Media Over a Radiating Stretching Sheet with Heat Source/Sink
Srinivas Maripala *
Department of Mathematics, Sciences and Humanities, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Yamnampet, Ghatkesar, Rangareddy District, Telangana-501301, India.
N. Kishan
Department of Mathematics, University College of Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana 50007, India.
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Abstract
Numerical analysis is presented to investigate the chemical reaction effects on magnetohydrodynamics convection slip flow of nanofluid in a saturated porous media over a radiating stretching sheet with heat source/sink. The model used for the nanofluid incorporates the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. The governing boundary-layer equations of the problem are formulated and transformed into a non-similar form. The resultant equations are then solved numerically using finite difference method along with Thomas algorithm. The results are analyzed for the effect of different physical parameters on the dimensionless velocity, temperature and nanoparticle concentration fields and are presented through graphs.
Keywords: MHD, chemical reaction parameter, heat source/sink, thermophoresis parameter, Brownian motion parameter, convection-radiation parameter, hydrodynamic (momentum) slip parameter.