Effects of Radiation and Absorption on three dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Upper-Convected Maxwell Nano-fluid Flow
Abstract
The present paper deals with the study of the MHD upper-convected Maxwell nano-fluid flow through a bidirectional stretchable surface. The influence of heat absorption and thermal radiation has been studied. Governing non-linear partial differential equations, controlling the mass conservation, momentum conservation, energy conservation, and species concentration, are transformed into ordinary differential equations with the help of an appropriate similarity transformation, which are then solved numerically by using the bvp4c routine of MATLAB. The impact of various physical parameters on the velocity, temperature, and concentration distributions is described briefly with the help of graphs. The skin-friction, rate of heat and mass transfers at the plate are computed numerically and displayed through the table. Such a fluid flow problem may find applications in heat transfer mechanisms/devices.
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