Abstract

In the present paper, an analytical study of visco - elastic fluid flow with heat and mass transfer characteristics over a porous stretching sheet has been examined. Heat balance is maintained with space dependent and temperature gradient dependent heat sink/source, viscous dissipation, and non-uniform heat source on the non-Newtonian Walter’s liquid B' model. The mass balance is maintained with chemically reactive species of order I, variable mass diffusivity and concentration gradient dependent mass diffusion. Using similarity transformation technique on the highly non-linear differential equations, several closed form analytical solutions are obtained for non-dimensional temperature and concentration in both PST and PHF cases in the form of confluent hypergeometric (Kummar’s) functions. The effect of permeability parameter, viscoelastic parameter, suction parameter on velocity profiles and various physical fluid situations with different degrees of viscoelasticity, Prandtl number, Eckert number, heat source- sink strength, temperature field are discussed in detail and presented through graphs. Similarly in the mass transfer field the effects of Schmidt number, reaction rate parameters are discussed in detail and presented through graphs.

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