EFFECT OF ARRHENIUS ACTIVATION ENERGY IN MHD MICROPOLAR NANOFLUID FLOW ALONG A POROUS STRETCHING SHEET WITH VISCOUS DISSIPATION AND HEAT SOURCE

A numerical study of the heat and mass transfer of a micropolar nanofluid flow over a stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium is carried out in this investigation. The main objective of this work is to investigate the influence of Arrhenius activation energy, heat source and viscous dissipation on the fluid velocity, microrotation, temperature, and concentration distribution. The equations governing the flow are transformed into ordinary differential equations using appropriate similarity transformations and solved numerically using bvp4c solver in MATLAB. Graphs are plotted to study the influences of important parameters such as magnetic parameter, porosity parameter, thermophoresis parameter, Brownian motion parameter, activation energy parameter and Lewis number on velocity, microrotation, temperature and concentration distribution. The graphical representation explores that the velocity of the liquid diminishes for increasing values of magnetic parameter, whereas the angular velocity increases with it. This study also reports that an enhancement of temperature and concentration distribution is observed for the higher values of activation energy parameter, whereas the Lewis number shows the opposite behavior. The effects of various pertinent parameters are exposed realistically on skin friction coefficient, Nusselt and Sherwood numbers via tables. A comparison with previous work is conducted, and the results show good agreement.