Analysis of Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects with chemical reaction on Williamson nanofluid flow over permeable stretching sheet

Abstract

This study warrants a broad analysis on the simultaneous effects of Brownian and thermophoresis on the chemically reacting Williamson nanofluid flow via a permeable expanding sheet. The analysis includes the properties of slip velocity and thermal radiation, providing a more representative picture of the physical phenomena. The differential equations governed by demonstrating the fluid flow phenomena are renewed to a set of nonlinear differential equations utilizing similarity rules. These transformed equations are subsequently handled numerically adopting the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. The results reveal the significant control of Brownian motion together with thermophoresis and additionally, the inclusion of velocity slip and thermal radiation remarkably affect the velocity, temperature, and concentration distributions. Parametric studies show the validation of the present system to variations in the Williamson fluid parameter, slip parameter, radiative heat parameter, Brownian motion parameter, and thermophoresis parameter.

Keywords

• Williamson nanofluid
• Magnetohydrodynamic
• Thermal radiation
• Slip effect
• Numerical technique