Mass and heat transfer in the boundary layer region of modified second-grade fluid flow over a linearly stretched sheet embedded in porous media

Abstract

Here, we have improved a model to describe the flow variables, velocity, mass and heat transfer in the boundary layer region of modified second-grade fluid flow over a linearly stretched sheet in a porous media. The modified model is used to study the qualitative impact of buoyancy parameter, second-grade fluid parameter, magnetic parameters, porous parameter, power-law index, and chemical reaction parameter on the flow profiles, radial and axial velocities, temperature, and concentration. Starting with the steady-state governing equations of mass, momentum, heat, and concentration of the fluid flow, we obtained the boundary layer approximations of the flow near the linearly stretched sheet with the no-slip boundary condition. Similarity transformation has been used to convert the partial differential equations system into a nonlinear ordinary differential equations system. The radial velocities, temperature, and concentration profiles have been solved numerically, and the qualitative influence of the flow parameters on the flow variables has been simulated and graphically presented for comparison. We have observed that radial and axial velocities were increasing for the shear-thinning and shearthickening fluids with solutal Grashof number, thermal Grashof number and second-grade fluid parameters. In contrast, the porous and chemical reaction parameters slow down both fluids’ radial and axial velocities. The temperature and concentration increase with the porous and magnetic parameters. However, thermal and solutal Grashof and second-grade fluid parameters suppress temperature and concentration. In shear-thickening fluids, chemical reaction parameters enhance concentration but suppress in shear-thinning fluids.