Radiative Jeffrey fluid transport over a stretching surface with anomalous heat and mass flux

Abstract

As a means of influencing technological advancements in engineering applications and various fluid products, the generalized Fourier’s and Fick’s models have proven to be of great importance. Industries such as power station engineering, high thermal material processing, and bio-heat elements apply the concept of anomalous heat and mass transfer mechanism. The objective of this study is to stimulate the flow of a radiative magnetohydrodynamics Jeffery fluid over an expanding surface with anomalous heat and mass transfer dynamics subjected to nth order reaction and variable thermophysical properties. A set of similarity transformations is used to neutralize the governing equations into a nondimensionless form. To obtain the model parametric analysis, a numerical tool via the spectral local linearization method (SLLM) is deployed after transformation of the governing flow equation from a two-unknown partial differential equations to a one-variable ordinary differential equation. It is observed that the thermal boundary layer thickness is found to be enhanced with increasing parametric values of magnetic, Eckert and radiation parameters. For the radiation parameter [Formula: see text], the skin drag force, Nusselt and Sherwood number increase by [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], respectively. Additionally, a [Formula: see text] increment in the nth order parameter boosts the rate of heat transfer by [Formula: see text] while it downsizes the Sherwood number by [Formula: see text].