The present study focuses on the study of heat transfer in a magnetohydrodynamic double stratification fluid flow through porous channel. In getting the solution of Navier-Stokes equations, we have adapted the similarity transformation technique to convert the partial differential equations into a coupled system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. We further applied the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method with shooting technique to solve the problem numerically. The results are exhibited via graphs, and the analysis has been addressed for various flow characteristics with respect to the parameters concerned. It is found that thermal stratification enhances both temperature and heat transfer rates, and solutal stratification enhances concentration and mass transfer rates. Concentration decreases with increasing chemical reaction and it increases with stratification. A significant variation is observed between concentration profiles in the presence of stratification. K E Y W O R D S double stratification, magnetohydrodynamic, second-grade fluid, shooting method
| INTRODUCTIONConvection with porous boundaries has a significant importance in science and technology. For example, heat exchangers, solar collectors, drying processes, geothermal and oil recoveries, aircraft cabin insulations, and so forth. Raptis 1 has considered a two-dimensional laminar flow over an infinite vertical plate. Taking heat source into account, Rana et al 2 solved the problem of free convection flow in a porous channel. Sacheti and Singh 3 studied the effects of viscous and Darcy dissipations in a convection fluid flow through a rotating vertical porous channel. The effects of heat source and slip on the natural convection oscillatory viscous fluid flow between porous parallel plates with mass transfer are presented by Sharma and Sharma. 4 Job and Gunakala 5 investigated the Joule dissipations on free convective magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) nanofluid flow in a wavy trapezoidal enclosure.As growth rate of cultured species is affected by the variations in temperature and concentration levels of oxygen and hydrogen, so it is very important to have control over the thermal and solutal stratification. This is mostly occurs in ground water reservoirs, oceans, and so forth. Neagu 6 analyzed the effects of double stratifications on the natural convective flow over a wavy channel in the presence of viscous forces along with heat and mass fluxes. Convection in a viscous fluid over thermally stratified porous medium along a vertical plate is discussed by Tewari and Singh. 7 Ibrahim and Makinde 8 employed finite difference method for the problem of boundary layer nanofluid flow with double stratification. Rathish Kumar and Singh 9 noticed the impact of double diffusion on the free convection viscous fluid flow in a thermally stratified vertical porous enclosure.From the above studies, one can analyze the natural convective Newtonian fluids with and without stratification. It is also important to study of the aforementioned properties with non-Newtoni...