Effect of Radiation, Heat Source, Viscous Dissipation on Heat and Mass Transfer of Nanofluid Over a Nonlinear Stretching Sheet

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• Volume 3,Issue 3,May 2015

Year:

2015

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Nanofluid, Heat Transfer, Viscous Dissipation, Internal Heat Generation, Radiation

Authors:

Dr. V. Dhanalaxmi

Journal:

IJISM

Volume:

3

Number:

3

Pages:

179-186

Month:

May

Abstract:

The present paper focuses on free convective boundary layer flow of a radiating nanofluid along a non-linear stretching sheet. The model used for the nanofluid incorporates the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. The governing boundary layer equations are reduced into ordinary differential equations by a similarity transformation. The transformed equations are solved numerically using Rungekutta fourth order method along with shooting technique. The numerical predictions have been compared with existing information in the literature [21] & [22] and good agreement is obtained. The effects of various parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are presented graphically and discussed. Numerical values of skin friction coefficient, Nusselt numbers and the Sherwood numbers are presented in tabular form.

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