Magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer nanofluid flow and heat transfer over a stretching surface

Abstract

The present study is performed to investigate the effect of unsteadiness, stretching ratio, Brownian motion, thermophoresis and magnetic parameter on boundary layer such as momentum, thermal and nanoparticle concentration. In this respect we have considered the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) unsteady boundary layer nanofluid flow and heat – mass transfer over a stretching surface. The dimensionless governing equations are unsteady, two-dimensional coupled and non-linear ordinary differential equations. The numerical solution is taken by applying the Nachtsgeim-Swigert shooting iteration technique along with Runge-Kutta integration scheme. The effects of various dimensionless parameters on velocity, temperature and nanoparticle concentration are discussed numerically and shown graphically. Therefore, from the figures it is observed that the results of velocity profile increases for increasing values of magnetic parameter and unsteadiness parameter but decreases for stretching ratio parameter, the temperature profile decreases in presence of Brownian motion, unsteadiness parameter, stretching ratio parameter and thermophoresis parameter but increases for magnetic parameter and, the nanoparticle concentration decreases for increasing values of thermophoresis parameter, unsteadiness parameter and stretching ratio parameter whereas the reverse trend arises for Brownian motion & magnetic parameter. For validity and accuracy the present results are compared with previously published work and found good agreement.