Thermal radiation and diffusion effects in MHD Williamson and Casson fluid flows past a slendering stretching surface

Abstract

AbstractThe article is presented to analyze the magnetohydrodynamic Casson and Williamson fluids flow over a stretched surface of variable thickness by including the conditions of thermal radiation, velocity slip, temperature, and concentration slip. The equations governing the flow characteristics are transformed to ordinary differential equations by applying similarity transformations. The solution of the simplified equations is obtained by the numerical bvp5c Matlab package. The behavior for Williamson and Casson fluid cases is explored and discussed with the impact of sundry parameters on the flowing fluid, thermal, and diffusion fields. The profiles under the impact of parameters are depicted through graphs. Also, we evaluated the performance of local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers along with the friction of the wall and are displayed through tables. We found that the temperature and mass transfer distribution is low in Williamson fluid when compared to Casson fluid flow. The computed results indicate that the flow, thermal and concentration boundary layer characteristics of Williamson and Casson fluids are not unique.