The effects of chemical reaction on magnetohydrodynamic flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid past a stretchable surface with melting
Goutam Kumar Mahato, B. K. Mahatha, R. Nandkeolyar, B. Patra
Abstract
Steady flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting, and chemically reacting nanofluid over a stretching sheet, with melting, in the presence of an applied transverse magnetic field is investigated. Using adequate similarity transformations non-linear partial differential equations, governing to the problem, are transformed into non- linear ordinary differential equations and then solved using bvp4c (Matlab's boundary value problem solver). A comparison is also done to validate the numerical results obtained in the present paper with the existing literature. Numerical results of velocity, temperature, and species concentration are depicted graphically. Numerical values of skin friction coefficient, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number are presented in tabular form. Such nanofluid flows find applications in heat transfer processes, pharmaceutical processes, domestic refrigerators, heat exchanger, engine cooling, vehicle thermal management etc.