Dual DTM-Padé approximations on free convection MHD mass transfer flow of nanofluid through a stretching sheet in presence of Soret and Dufour Phenomena

Abstract

A theoretical study is made to investigate heat and mass transfer analysis on the single phase flow of an electrically conducting, Al2O3-Water nanofluid over a linearly stretching sheet in presence of Soret and Dufour effects. An applied magnetic field is considered normal to the flow, while the effect of induced magnetic field got neglected for small magnetic Reynolds number’s value of the flow field relative to the applied field. Since voltage difference at the lateral ends of the sheet is very small, the influence of the electric field is thus omitted. The governing equations representing the physical model of the fluid flow is solved by means of DTM-Padé approximations. The acquired results show that an increase in the Soret number (Dufour number) decreases (increases) the temperature profiles but increases (decreases) the concentration profiles. The axial velocity profiles found decreasing with increasing values of the magnetic parameter. Both chemical reaction and thermal radiation parameters maximize the temperature profiles whereas a reverse phenomenon is seen on concentration profiles. The obtained tables show that increasing nanoparticle volume fraction escalates skin-friction coefficient, Nusselt number and Sherwood number whereas an increase in Richardson number decreases the Nusselt number but increases the Sherwood number.