Effects of Mixed Convective Flow of a Nanofluid with Internal Heat Generation, Thermal Radiation and Chemical Reaction

An analysis is made on the study of mixed convective flow of a nanofluid with internal heat generation, thermal radiation and chemical reaction. The energy equation accounts for heat generation or absorption, while the nth order homogeneous chemical reaction between the fluid and the diffusing species is included in the mass diffusion equation. The governing equations of the linear momentum, angular momentum, energy equation and concentration are first brought into a dimensionless form by introducing a suitable group of similarity transformations and then the transformed coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations are solved numerically by applying a fifth-order Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg scheme with shooting technique using appropriate boundary conditions. Numerical results for the skin friction coefficient, Nusselt number, Sherwood number and wall couple stress coefficient are also presented and analyzed in detail. The obtained results are compared with previously published work and were to be in excellent agreement.