Effect of Nonlinear Thermal Radiation on 3D Jeffrey Fluid Flow in the Presence of Homogeneous–Heterogeneous Reactions

Abstract

In this study, we analyzed the effects of nonlinear thermal radiation on three-dimensional flow of Jeffrey fluid past a stretching/shrinking surface in the presence of homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions, non-uniform heat source/sink and suction/injection. The transformed governing equations are solved numerically using Runge-Kutta based shooting technique. We obtained good accuracy of the present results by comparing with the exited literature. The influence of dimensionless parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration profiles along with the friction factors, local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are discussed with the help of graphs and tables. We presented dual solutions for the flow over a stretching and shrinking surfaces and found that dual solutions exist only for certain range of stretching/shrinking parameter. It is also found that the heat and mass transfer rate on the flow over a stretching surface is high while compared with the flow over a shrinking surface.