Abstract
This article reports the two-dimensional forced convective flow of a generalized Burgers fluid over a linearly stretched sheet under the impacts of nano-sized material particles. Utilizing appropriate similarity transformations the coupled nonlinear partial differential equations are converted into a set of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The analytic results are carried out through the homotopy analysis method (HAM) to investigate the impact of various pertinent parameters for the velocity, temperature and concentration fields. The obtained results are presented in tabular form as well as graphically and discussed in detail. The presented results show that the rate of heat transfer at the wall and rate of nanoparticle volume fraction diminish with each increment of the thermophoresis parameter. While incremented values of the Brownian motion parameter lead to a quite opposite effect on the rates of heat transfer and nanoparticle volume fraction at the wall.
Highlights
The forced convective analysis of boundary layer flows involving non-Newtonian fluids induced by a stretching surface has been the focus of extensive attempts during the past few decades due to their industrial and technological applications e.g., biological, chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industries
The fluid model under thought is a subclass of the rate-type fluid that is known as the generalized Burgers fluid
The objective of the present study is to examine the flow and heat transfer characteristics to generalized Burgers nanofluid over a linear stretching sheet
Summary
The forced convective analysis of boundary layer flows involving non-Newtonian fluids induced by a stretching surface has been the focus of extensive attempts during the past few decades due to their industrial and technological applications e.g., biological, chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industries. Several fluids such as drilling muds, shampoos, ketchup, granular suspension, apple sauce, paper pulp, slurries, paints, certain oils, polymer solutions, and clay coating are the non-Newtonian fluids. This model has been inspected by a few researchers.[6,7,8,9,10,11]
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