Characteristics of MHD Jeffery Fluid Past an Inclined Vertical Porous Plate

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the study of an unsteady, MHD natural convective boundary layer flow of a viscous, incompressible and electrically conducting, non-Newtonian Jeffery fluid over a semi-infinite vertically inclined permeable moving plate embedded in a porous medium in the presence of thermal radiation, heat absorption and thermal diffusion, heat and mass transfer. . The permeability of the porous medium and the suction velocity are considered to be an exponentially decreasing function of time. The fundamental governing equations for this investigation are solved numerically using the perturbation technique. The results are presented graphically and in tabular form for various controlling parameters. The behavior of different physical parameters is shown graphically. The numerical values of Skin friction, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number are presented in a tabular form. Obtained outcomes are compared with earlier studies in the special case and strong agreement is noted. From graphical representation, it is concluded that velocity and temperature distribution increases with the mixed convection parameter and buoyancy force parameter. An increasing value of magnetic field parameter, slip parameter, and Jeffery parameter tends to reduced velocity and also raising the values of Prandtl number, radiation parameter and heat absorption parameter tends to downfallen temperature profiles. This study may be useful in several industrial applications, for example, polymer production, manufacturing of ceramics or glassware and food processing, and so forth.