Effects of thermal radiation and viscous dissipation on boundary layer flow of nanofluids over a permeable moving flat plate

Abstract

The effects of suction, viscous dissipation, thermal radiation and thermal diffusion are numerically studied on a boundary layer flow of nanofluids over a moving flat plate. The partial differential equations governing the motion are transformed into ordinary differential equations using similarity solutions, and are solved using the Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg method with the shooting technique. The effects of nanoparticle volume fraction, the type of nanoparticles, the radiation parameter, the Brinkman number, the suction/injection parameter and the relative motion of the plate on the nanofluids velocity, temperature, skin friction and heat transfer characteristics are graphically presented and then discussed quantitatively. A comparative study between the previously published and the present results in a limiting sense reveals excellent agreement between them.