Magnetohydrodynamic steady boundary layer stagnation point of nanofluid flow with heat and mass transfer over a stretching sheet with full slip effects

Abstract

In the present research, the steady boundary layer stagnation point flow with heat and mass transfer of a nanofluid over a linearly stretching sheet in the presence of a magnetic field, applied in the transverse direction of flow, has been analyzed. The boundary layer equations for flow, heat and mass transfer, which are partial differential equations, were transformed into a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations using the suitable similarity transformation. This system was solved using Runge-Kutta fourth order method, with shooting technique. It was found that the solutions depend mainly, on the Brownian motion parameter, thermophoresis parameter, velocity ratio parameter, momentum, thermal and solutal slip parameters, magnetic parameter and Lewis number. Further, we noticed that the flow field, temperature and nanoparticle volume fraction profiles are sententiously affected by the above mentioned parameters, and the same was depicted graphically. Copyright © 2015 American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved.