Buongiorno’s radiative Prandtl-Eyring nanofluid flow through porous medium over a stretching surface with cross-diffusion effects

Abstract

The main focus of the current analysis is to describe the thermo-magnetic flow, heat and mass transport features of two-dimensional dissipative Prandtl-Eyring nanofluid (PE-NF) flow over a stretching sheet under the influence of porous medium and magnetic Ohmic dissipation numerically. An innovative Buongiorno’s nanofluid model in terms of Brownian motion and thermophoresis is deployed to accurately simulate the nano behavior in Prandtl-Eyring within the boundary layer regime. The thermal radiation and heat source/sink effects are also included to describe the thermal transport process. In addition to this, the thermo-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effect are included to demonstrate the temperature and concentration diffusion mechanism under the presence of chemical reaction process. The emerged coupled nonlinear two-dimensional time-independent partial differential equations are rendered to their dimensionless form through appropriate similarity transformations and solved by deploying Matlab-based BVP4C technique. The graphical visualization showed that, the increasing magnetic number diminished the flow field and enhanced the temperature and concentration profiles in the flow regime. Rising porous parameter decayed the Prandtl-Eyring nanofluid velocity. Increasing radiation and Eckert numbers enhance the temperature field in the flow regime. Magnifying Prandtl-Eyring parameter suppressed the velocity diffusion. Increasing Brownian motion and thermophoresis parameters increases the temperature profile. Amplifying Soret parameter upsurges the concentration profile. Skin-friction coefficient amplified with enhanced magnetic and porous numbers. Heat transfer rate acts as increasing function of thermophoresis and Brownian motion parameters. The main objective of this study is the addition of magnetic Ohmic dissipation, radiation, porous medium, thermal source/sink, Soret and Dufour effects and Buongiorno nanofluid model and this consideration generalizes former studies and gives a new re-defined mathematical formulation of heat and mass transport features of Prandtl-Eyring nanofluid flow over a stretching sheet. Finally, the numerical accuracy of the current similarity results is validated with available solutions and noticed a good agreement.