Unveiling the Behavior of MHD Mixed Convective Nanofluid Slip Flow over a Moving Vertical Plate with Radiation, Chemical Reaction, and Viscous Dissipation

Abstract

The effects of chemical reactions on heat and mass transfer with radiation are extremely important in hydrometallurgical industries and chemical technology, such as polymer synthesis and food processing. A mathematical model for a viscous, incompressible, mixed convective, and MHD slip flow over a moving vertical plate is proposed in the present research. On account of physical relevance, the combined effect of radiation and chemical reaction on MHD nanofluid is studied. Using the similarity transformation method, the governing equations are converted into a system of ODEs. The transformed equations are then numerically solved by the Galerkin finite element method (GFEM). To analyse the characteristics of flow and heat transfer, a number of parameters are examined, including the slip, magnetic, radiation, and chemical reaction parameters, as well as the Schmidt, Grashof, Eckert, and Prandtl numbers. The coefficient of skin friction, Nusselt number, and Sherwood numbers for selected parameters are numerically presented. Graphs are used to determine and study the effects of magnetic fields, slip conditions, radiation, and chemical reactions on the temperature, concentration, and velocity profiles of nanofluids. This study shows that the presence of chemical reactions and radiation causes an increase in the velocity profile and temperature profile, respectively. Additionally, it is discovered that the temperature profile grows with increasing velocity slip, and concentration increases with increasing thermal slip. The current work has broad applications in various fields and can lead to the development of more efficient and effective systems in different industries, such as heat exchangers, energy production, environmental engineering, and biomedical engineering.