Soret effect on natural convection boundary-layer flow of a non- Newtonian nanofluid over a vertical cone embedded in a porous medium

In this investigation, we intend to present the influence of the prominent Soret effect on natural convection boundary-layer flow of a non-Newtonian nanofluid over a vertical cone embedded in a porous medium. The model used for the nanofluid incorporates the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into a set of non-linear equations and solved numerically using an efficient numerical shooting technique with a fourth-order Runge-Kutta scheme (MATLAB package). The numerical results for the temperature, volume fraction, and concentration profiles, as well as the

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