Thermofluid of Maxwellian type past a porous stretching cylinder with heat generation and chemical reaction

Abstract

This article evaluated the effects of heat generation and the chemical reaction of Maxwell fluid over a porous stretching cylinder. Partial differential equations are framed using the mentioned parameters. The partial differential equations for momentum, heat, and mass are changed using similarity transformations into highly nonlinear ordinary differential equations. These equations are answered numerically via the Runge-Kutta with the shotting scheme of the 4th order in MATLAB with the help of inbuilt software bvp4c. Results are offered graphically and in tabular format for essential parameters over a velocity, temperature, concentration, skin friction coefficient, Sherwood number, and Nusselt number. We checked our coding against an existing article and obtained a good match. The essential findings of this research are that velocity decreases as the permeability parameter rises. It has been observed that a viscoelastic fluid parameter induces a decreasing velocity profile. Due to the Maxwell fluid, porosity, heat generation, and chemical reaction parameters, the thermal profile has been improved. These results have several manufacturing applications, including metal turning, the fabrication of glass filaments, the formation of elastic sheets, wire drawing, the ejection of polymer sheets by oil companies, and the synthesis of polymers.

Keywords

• Porous medium
• Viscoelastic Maxwell fluid
• Stretching cylinder
• Chemical reaction
• Heat generation