Numerical solution for hydromagnetic boundary layer flow and heat transfer past a stretching surface embedded in non-Darcy porous medium with fluid-particle suspension

Abstract

This paper investigates the problem of MHD boundary layer flow and heat transfer of an electrically conducting dusty fluid over an unsteady stretching surface through a non-Darcy porous medium. The flow in porous medium is described by employing the Darcy–Forchheimer based model. The unsteadiness in the flow and temperature fields are because of time-dependent stretching velocity and surface temperature. The effect of thermal radiation, viscous dissipation and non-uniform heat source/sink are also taken into account. The pertinent time-dependent equations, governing the flow and heat transfer are reduced into a set of non-linear ordinary differential equations with the aid of suitable similarity transformations. The transformed equations are numerically integrated using fourth–fifth order Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg method. The effects of various physical parameters on the velocity and temperature profiles of both phases are analyzed through several plots. Obtained numerical results are compared and found to be in good agreement with previously published results as special cases of the present investigation. It is found that, by suspending fine dust particles in the clean fluid reduces the thermal boundary layer thickness. Therefore, the dusty fluids are preferable in engineering and scientific applications, involving cooling processes.