Non-aligned MHD stagnation point flow of variable viscosity nanofluids past a stretching sheet with radiative heat

Abstract This paper investigates the problem of oblique hydromagnetic stagnation point flow of a variable viscosity electrically conducting optically dense viscous incompressible nanofluid over a convectively heated stretching sheet in the presence of thermal radiation. The nanofluid model employed in this study incorporates the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations for momentum, energy and nanoparticles concentration are reduced into a set of non-linear ordinary differential equations with the aid of suitable similarity transformations. The transformed equations are numerically integrated using fourth–fifth order Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg method. The effects of various controlling parameters on the dimensionless velocity, temperature, nanoparticles concentration, skin friction, Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are analysed and presented graphically. Obtained numerical results are compared and found to be in good agreement with previously published results as special cases of the present investigation. It is found that non-alignment of the re-attachment point on the sheet surface decreases with an increase in magnetic field intensity.

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