Unsteady slip flow of Carreau nanofluid over a wedge with nonlinear radiation and new mass flux condition

Abstract This article addresses a numerical investigation for the unsteady 2D slip flow of Carreau nanofluid past a static and/or moving wedge with the nonlinear radiation. A zero nanoparticle mass flux and convective boundary conditions are implemented. Further, the most recently devised model for nanofluid is adopted that incorporates the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. A set of suitable transformation is demonstrated to alter the nonlinear partial differential equations into nonlinear ordinary differential equations and then tackled numerically by employing bvp4c in Matlab package. The numerical computations for the wall heat flux (Nusselt number) and wall mass flux (Sherwood number) are also performed. Effects of several controlling parameters on the velocity, temperature and nanoparticles concentration are explored and discussed in detail. Our study reveals that the temperature and the associated thermal boundary layer thickness are enhancing function of the temperature ratio parameter for both shear thickening and shear thinning fluids. Moreover, it is noticed that the velocity in case of moving wedge is higher than static wedge.

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