MHD dissipative Powell-Eyring fluid flow due to a stretching sheet with convective boundary conditions and slip velocity

Abstract

The novelty and motivation of this research can be emphasized by examining how the heat transfer mechanism of a non-Newtonian Powell-Eyring fluid, which flows because of a stretched sheet, is affected by factors like viscous dissipation, the slip velocity phenomenon, and Joule heating. In addition, the investigation delves into the heat transfer behavior of the fluid flow when it comes into contact with a convectively heated stretched surface that is influenced by varying fluid properties. This analysis also takes into account the influence of changing fluid characteristics and the presence of magnetic field. The numerical solutions of modelled equations that governing the problem are detected using the shooting technique. Also, in order to confirm the validity of the present investigation, a proper comparison with certain published works as a particular case of the present model is presented, and a perfect agreement is noted. With the use of diagrams and tables, the flow problem’s effective parameters are thoroughly discussed. Likewise, through a tabular representation, the values of the local Nusselt number and the skin-friction coefficient are computed and analyzed. Many significant conclusions can be drawn from numerical results. Most importantly, the local Nusselt number rises monotonically with both the surface convection parameter and the slip velocity parameter, but the local skin-friction coefficient has the opposite trend. The results indicate that the nanofluid temperature is enhanced by factors such as the surface convection parameter, magnetic field, and viscous dissipation. On the other hand, the slip velocity phenomenon leads to the opposite effect.