Closure to Discussion of “Higher Order Chemical Reaction and Radiation Effects on Magnetohydrodynamic Flow of a Maxwell Nanofluid With Cattaneo-Christov Heat Flux Model Over a Stretching Sheet in a Porous Medium” (Vinodkumar Reddy, M. and Lakshminarayana, P., 2022, ASME J. Fluids Eng., 144(4), p. 041204)

Abstract

Our response to the Discussion by Pantokratoras [1] is as follows:Claim-1: The author [1] claimed that the temperature profiles did not converge smoothly. It does not mean that the results are wrong. All the obtained outcomes satisfied the boundary conditions of the current study. This happened due to the common eta values considered for both flow and thermal profiles. We can change the eta value for smooth convergence of thermal profiles but there will not be any change in results. Many theoretical investigations published similar types of outcomes in this area of research. We already provided the comparative analysis to show that the obtained results are correct and agree well with the available results in the literature.Claim-2: It is clear that gravity acts in the vertical direction, and the effect is more on vertical flows. It does not mean that there is no effect of gravity on the horizontal flow. The impact of buoyancy also impacts the flow amplitude irrespective of its flow direction.The Refs. [2–10] support our claims.Finally, the claims made by the author Asterios Pantokratoras are not acceptable for the current theoretical work.