MHD CASSON NANOFLUID FLOW OVER A STRETCHING SURFACE EMBEDDED IN A POROUS MEDIUM: EFFECTS OF THERMAL RADIATION AND SLIP CONDITIONS

Abstract

This article presents a numerical study for a magnetohydrodynamic flow of a non-Newtonian Casson nanofluid over a stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium under the impacts of non-linear thermal radiation, heat generation/absorption, Joule heating and slips boundary conditions. A two-phase nanofluid model is applied to represent the nanofluid mixture. The porous medium is represented via the Darcy model. A similar solution is obtained for the governing equations and a numerical treatment based on the Runge-Kutta method is conducted to the resulting system of equations.  In this study, the controlling physical parameters are the Casson fluid parameter , the magnetic field , the radiation parameter , the Brownian motion parameter  and the thermophoresis parameter . The obtained results reveal that an increase in the Casson parameter enhances both of the local Nusselt and the Sherwood number while they are reduced as the non-linear radiation parameter increases. In addition, an increase in the magnetic field parameter supports the skin friction coefficient regardless the value of the Casson parameter.