MHD Powell–Eyring dusty nanofluid flow due to stretching surface with heat flux boundary condition

Abstract

AbstractA steady MHD boundary layer flow of Powell–Eyring dusty nanofluid over a stretching surface with heat flux condition is studied numerically. It is assumed that the fluid is incompressible and the impacts of thermophoresis and Brownian motion are taken into regard. In addition, the Powell–Eyring terms are considered in the momentum boundary layer and thermal boundary layer. The dust particles are seen as to be having the same size and conform to the nanoparticles in a spherical shape. We obtain a system of ordinary differential equations that are suitable for analyzed numerically using the fourth-order Runge–Kutta method via software algebraic MATLAB by applying appropriate transformations to the system of the governing partial differential equations in our problem. There is perfect compatibility between the bygone and current results when comparing our numerical solutions with the available data for values of the selected parameters. This confirms the validity of the method used here and thus the validity of the results. The influence of some parameters on the boundary layer profiles (the velocity and temperature for the particle phase and fluid phase, and nanoparticle concentration) is discussed. The results of this study display that the profiles of the velocity for particle and fluid phases increase with increasing Powell–Eyring fluid parameter, but reduce with height in magnetic field values. Mass concentration of the dust particles decreases the temperature of both the particle and fluid phases. The results also indicate the concentration of nanoparticle contraction as Schmidt number increases.