Casson Liquid Flow due to Porous Stretching Sheet with Suction/Injection

Abstract

The theoretical study of laminar boundary layer flows of a non-Newtonian fluid past a stretching sheet in an embedded porous medium in the presence of suction/injection is of significant importance in the crystal growing, geothermal, metallurgical, polymer extrusion and several other technological processes. Casson fluid model is one such fluid model used to characterize the behaviour of non-Newtonian fluids. The present article discusses the Casson fluid flow past a permeable stretching sheet in the presence of mass transpiration. The physical problem is modelled into a system of nonlinear partial differential equations which are analytically solved by transforming them into nonlinear ordinary differential equations with constant coefficient by means of similarity transformations. The analysis reveals the effect of Casson parameter on the velocity boundary. In fact, the increasing Casson parameter results in the suppression of velocity boundary. It is found that the skin friction coefficient decreases with the decreasing values of Casson parameter. The effects of Darcy drag force and the mass transpiration are also analyzed by means of various plots.