Effects of slip and convective conditions on MHD flow of nanofluid over a porous nonlinear stretching/shrinking sheet

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to theoretically investigate the steady two-dimensional electrical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) nanofluid flow over a stretching/shrinking sheet. The effects of stretching and shrinking parameter, as well as electric and magnetic fields, thermal radiation, viscous and Joule heating in the presence of slip, heat and mass convection boundary conditions at the surface, are imposed and studied. The mathematical model governing the flow has been constructed which are partial differential equations and then rehabilitated for a system of ordinary differential equations involving the momentum, energy and concentration equations via suitable similarity transformations. Though various conjectures have been put forward to explain the concept of boundary layer flow, the current investigation employed implicit finite difference scheme indicates good agreement with those of the previously published investigation in the limiting sense. Numerical results of the dual solutions for the velocity, temperature, and concentration as well as heat transfer are elucidated through graphs and tables. The velocity, thermal and solutal boundary layer thickness in the first solutions is smaller than that of the second solutions, the first solution is more stable compared to the second solution. Temperature and nanoparticle concentration fields are augmented by the heat and mass convective boundary conditions.