Volume 2, Issue 2

An Unsteady Flow and Nonlinear Radiative Heat Transfer of Nanofluid over a Stretching Sheet

Published:    2018-12-30

Authors

Krishnamurthy M. R., B.J. Gireesha

Abstract

This paper investigates the slip flow and nonlinear radiative heat transfer of nanofluid over an unsteady stretching sheet in a porous medium in the presence of chemical reaction. The governing equations are transformed to ordinary differential equations by using similarity transformation. Numerical solutions of these equations are obtained by using the Runge- Kutta-Felhberg-45 order method with Shooting Technique. The effects of nondimensional governing parameters on the velocity, temperature, concentration profiles are discussed and presented through graphs and tables. Accuracy of the results compared with the existing ones. Excellent agreement is found with earlier studies.

Keywords

Boundary layer flow, velocity slip, nonlinear thermal radiation, chemical reaction, numerical solution.

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