Numerical simulation of nanofluid flow with convective boundary condition

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Dept. of Mathematics, Kalyani Govt. Engg. College, Kalyani 741235, West Bengal, India

2 Dept. of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India

Abstract

In this paper, the heat and mass transfer of an electrically conducting incompressible
nanofluid over a heated stretching sheet with convective boundary condition is investigated. The
transport model includes the effect of Brownian motion with thermophoresis in the presence of
thermal radiation, chemical reaction and magnetic field. Lie group transformations are applied
to the governing equations. The transformed ordinary differential equations are solved numerically
by employing Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg method with shooting technique. Numerical results for temperature and concentration profiles as well as wall heat and mass flux are elucidated through graphs
and tables.

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