Magnetohydrodynamic Mixed Convection Heat and Mass Transfer of Nanofluid Flow Over a Stretching Wedge-Shaped Surface with the Effect of Thermophoresis and Brownian Motion

Abstract

The present study has been investigated to the consequence of the magnetic parameter, Grashof number, modified Grashof number, Prandtl number, thermal radiation parameter, Brownian motion parameter, thermophoresis parameter, heat generation parameter, Schmidt number, Biot number, stretching parameter, Lewis number, and chemical reaction parameter, respectively, over a stretching wedge of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) BL nanofluid flow. The main goal of this paper is to numerically investigate the nature of the MHD BL nanofluid flow along a stretching wedge-shaped surface with radiation, heat source, and chemical reaction parameters. The fundamental equations has been transformed into ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by the usual transformation. The numerical solutions are found by employing Runge-Kutta fourth-order method by exploiting symbolic software MATLAB via the shooting method. The novelty of the current study is implicated in the area of fluid dynamics to solve nonlinear differential equations numerically and is an important contribution to the field of nanofluids flow. Numerical solutions reveal that the concerned physical parameters lead to progress in the skin friction factor, rate of change of heat transfer as well as the rate of change of concentration. Brownian motion and thermophoresis parameters play a crucial role in the variation of temperature and concentration profiles and also in the development of thermal and concentration boundary layers.