Semi-numerical treatment of MHD Maxwell nanofluid rotating flow on a stretching sheet with the presence of mass transpiration, heat source/sink, and chemical reaction

Abstract

ABSTRACT The study of the flow of heat and mass transfer in the presence of suction and injection has many scientific and engineering applications such as in aerodynamics and space sciences. A significant role of suction/injection is observed in controlling fluid flow along a boundary layer surface and it is also affecting the heat transfer rate in the mass transfer cooling process. In the present study, we investigate suction/injection effects and heat transfer features of Maxwell nanofluid along a stretched sheet in addition to a chemical reaction, magnetohydrodynamics, and heat source/sink. The partial differential equations describing the physical phenomena of the problem under consideration are converted into non-dimensional ordinary differential equations (ODEs) through an appropriate set of similarity transformations. Transformed ODEs solution is obtained with a semi-optimal homotopy analysis method (OHAM). The influencing behavior of suction and injection, as well as of other parameters, on the velocity, temperature, and concentration fields are shown through graphs and tables. The horizontal velocity and temperature field show a decreasing behavior for both suction and injection while opposite trends are noticed in transverse velocity and concentration profile.