Influence of thermal radiation on mixed convection heat and mass transfer stagnation-point flow in nanofluids over stretching/shrinking sheet in a porous medium with chemical reaction

2014 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 644-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dulal Pal ◽  
Gopinath Mandal
Author(s):  
S. M. M. EL-Kabeir ◽  
Ali Chamkha ◽  
A. M. Rashad

The thermal-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects on heat and mass transfer by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mixed convection stagnation-point flow of a power-law non-Newtonian fluid towards a stretching surface in the presence of a magnetic field, thermal radiation and homogenous chemical reaction effects have been studied. A suitable set of dimensionless variables is used and similar equations governing the problem are obtained. The resulting equations have the property that they reduce to various special cases previously considered in the literature. An adequate implicit tri-diagonal finite-difference scheme is employed for the numerical solution of the obtained equations. Various comparisons with previously published work are performed and the results are found to be in excellent agreement. Representative results for the velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles as well as the local skin-friction coefficient, the local Nusselt number and the local Sherwood number illustrating the influence of the magnetic parameter, power-law fluid index, mixed convection parameter, concentration to thermal buoyancy ratio, thermal radiation, chemical reaction, and Dufour and Soret numbers are presented and discussed.


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