Nonlinear approximation for buoyancy-driven mixed convection heat and mass transfer flow over an inclined porous plate with Joule heating, nonlinear thermal radiation, viscous dissipation and thermophoresis effects

Abstract

This study considered a classical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) mixed convection heat and mass transfer flow over an inclined porous plate with thermophoresis, Joule heating, viscous dissipation, and nonlinear thermal radiation. The impact of nonlinear density variation with temperature and concentration (NDTC) in the buoyancy term is also taken into consideration. The mathematical model is first transformed into ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by similarity variables. The reduced ODEs are solved through the classical Runge–Kutta algorithm after utilizing the shooting technique. Some major findings of the analysis include; the heat transfer rate increases with the fluid injection but it decreases the rate of particle deposition and skin friction. Regarding the fluid suction, the heat transfer rate is observed to decrease as the fluid suction intensifies whereas increases the particle deposition and shear stress at the plate surface. As (a classical horizontal flat plate), the rate of heat transfer enhances but decreases the particle deposition rate and plate shear stress. With blowing/suction and in the presence of the magnetic parameter, the plate shear stress and heat transfer increase with nonlinear thermal radiation propagation whereas decreases the particle deposition. The species concentration near the porous plate, velocity, and temperature curves is enhanced by escalating the dissipation parameter. The radiative heat flux boosts the fluid temperature that consequently enhanced the velocity and the species concentration near the porous plate. The fluid velocity past the porous plate is higher in the case of a vertical plate () compared to the classical flow over a horizontal porous plate ().