Three-dimensional flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid past a permeable stretching sheet with a convective boundary condition

The three-dimensional flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid over a stretching sheet is studied. Numerical solutions are obtained using the boundary value problem solver bvp4c in MATLAB. It is noted that the results obtained for three-dimensional flow are similar to the results obtained in most two-dimensional flow problems. The suction and stretching parameter decrease the skin friction coefficient. On the other hand, increasing the stretching parameter is to increase the local Nusselt number. Although Biot number encourages the heat transfer rate at the surface, increasing thermophoresis parameter and Brownian motion parameter causes the local Nusselt number to decrease.