Soret-Dufour Mechanisms on the Thermal Loading of Catteneo-Christov Theories on Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Casson Nanofluid Dynamics Over a Stretching Sheet

Abstract

The dynamics of Casson nanofluid with chemically reactive and thermally conductive medium past an elongated sheet were investigated in this study. The thermal loading of the fluids is considered while experimenting the Cattaneo-Christov theories with MHD boundary layer flow. The Rosseland approximation is used on the radiative heat flux because the fluids are optically thin. Partial differential equations were used in the flow model (PDEs). These PDEs were converted to ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The Runge-kutta method and firing techniques were used to solve the altered equations numerically. Graphs were used to depict the effect of relevant flow parameters, while computations on engineering values of relevance were tabulated. The velocity profile was found to degenerate when the visco-inelastic parameter (Casson) was set to a higher value. The boundary layer distributions degenerate when the unsteadiness parameter (A) is increased. The findings revealed that, the plastic dynamic viscosity of the Casson fluid causes reduction to the velocity profile. This paper is unique because it examined the simultaneous thermal loading of two non-Newtonian fluids (Casson-Williamson) nanofluids with experimentation of Cattaneo-Christov theories. To the very best of our knowledge, no study has explored study of this type in literature.