Three dimensional boundary layer flow of a viscoelastic nanofluid with Soret and Dufour effects

Abstract

The present research focuses on the three-dimensional flow of viscoelastic fluid in the presence of Soret and Dufour effects. Effects of thermophoresis and Brownian motion are taken into account. Appropriate similarity transformations lead to nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Solution expressions of velocity, temperature and nanoparticle concentration are computed via homotopy analysis method (HAM). Convergence of obtained solutions is analyzed graphically and numerically. Results are plotted and analyzed for the dimensionless velocities, temperature and nanoparticle concentration. Values of local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are examined through tabular form. It is observed that Temperature field is enhanced for the larger Brownian motion parameter and an increase in Dufour number gives rise to the temperature and thermal boundary layer thickness.