Analysis of thermally stratified radiative flow of Sutterby fluid with mixed convection

Abstract

In this attempt, we investigate the mixed convection in Sutterby fluid flow based on boundary layer approximation. Heat transport analysis is composed of stratification and thermal radiative phenomena. The system of non-linear PDEs is transformed into coupled ODEs. Convergent series approximations are evaluated via homotopic technique. Influence of various pertinent parameters is sketched and graphically analyzed. It is found that horizontal velocity increments for higher mixed convection parameter. The radiation parameter has a similar relation with temperature whereas the stratification parameter shows opposite behavior for temperature field.