Nanofluid under Uniform Transverse Magnetic Field with a Chemical Reaction past a Stretching Sheet

TL;DR

This study investigates the steady flow of a nanofluid over a stretching sheet under a magnetic field, considering chemical reactions, thermophoresis, and Brownian motion, with numerical solutions and experimental validation.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive model analyzing nanofluid flow with magnetic, chemical, and thermal effects, solved via numerical methods and validated experimentally.

Findings

Magnetic field influences velocity and temperature profiles.

Chemical reaction affects concentration distribution.

Results align well with existing literature.

Abstract

An analysis is carried out to examine the effects of the steady flow of an electrically conducting viscous incompressible nanofluid in the existence of a uniform transverse magnetic field with chemical reaction over a stretching sheet considering suction or injection. The present model is demonstrated experimentally to reveal the effects of Thermophoresis and Brownian motion. Similarity solutions are investigated for the governing equations and solved numerically by using a shooting technique with fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration scheme. The impact of associated parameters on velocity profile, concentration profile and temperature profile is plotted graphically. Also the impact of local skin friction coefficient, the reduced Nusselt number and the reduced Sherwood number are discussed. The experimental setup revealed good agreement of the results with the literature.