Closure to “Computational Analysis for Mixed Convective Flows of Viscous Fluids With Nanoparticles” (Farooq, U., Lu, D. C., Ahmed, S., and Ramzan, M., 2019, ASME J. Therm. Sci. Eng. Appl., 11(2), p. 021013)

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Abstract The authors regret in the published paper referenced above and agree with the discussion by Pantokratoras (2019, “Discussion: “Computational Analysis for Mixed Convective Flows of Viscous Fluids With Nanoparticles” (Farooq, U., Lu, D. C., Ahmed, S., and Ramzan, M., 2019, ASME J. Therm. Sci. Eng. Appl., 11(2), p. 021013),” ASME J. Therm. Sci. Eng. Appl., 11(5), p. 055503). In this Closure, the non-similar mathematical model is developed to describe the mixed convective nanofluid flow over vertical sheet which is stretching at an exponential rate. In the published article referenced above, similarity transformations are utilized to convert the governing nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) into ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The important physical numbers such as magnetic field (M2), Brownian motion parameter (Nb), thermophoresis (Nt), Eckert number (Ec), ratio of mass transfer Grashof to heat transfer Grashof (N), buoyancy parameter (λ), and Reynolds number (Re) appearing in the dimensionless ODEs are still functions of coordinate “x”; therefore, the problem is non-similar. In this corrigendum, the non-similar model is developed by using ξ(x) as non-similarity variable and η(x, y) as pseudo-similarity variable. The dimensionless non-similar model is numerically simulated by employing local non-similarity via bvp4c. The graphical results show no change in behavior. The important thermal and mass transport quantities such as Nusselt number and Sherwood number have been computed for the non-similar model, and results are compared with the published article.