Adomain computation of radiative-convective bi-directional stretching flow of a magnetic non-Newtonian fluid in porous media with homogeneous–heterogeneous reactions

Abstract

In the present communication, the laminar, incompressible, hydromagnetic flow of an electrically conducting non-Newtonian (Sisko) fluid over a bi-directional stretching sheet in a porous medium is studied theoretically. Thermal radiation flux, homogeneous–heterogeneous chemical reactions and convective wall heating are included in the model. The resultant nonlinear ordinary differential equations with transformed boundary conditions via similarity transformation are then solved with the semi-analytical Adomain Decomposition Method (ADM). Validation with earlier studies is included for the nonradiative case. Extensive visualization of velocity, temperature and species concentration distributions for various emerging parameters is included. Increasing the magnetic field and inverse permeability parameter is observed to decelerate both the primary and secondary velocity magnitudes whereas they increase temperatures in the regime. Increasing sheet stretching ratio weakly accelerates the primary flow throughout the boundary layer whereas it more dramatically accelerates the secondary flow near sheet surface. Temperature is consistently reduced with increasing stretching sheet ratio whereas it is strongly enhanced with greater radiative parameter. With greater Sisko non-Newtonian power-law index the primary velocity and temperature are decreased whereas the secondary velocity is increased. Increasing both homogenous and heterogeneous chemical reaction parameters is found to weakly and more strongly, respectively, deplete concentration magnitudes whereas greater Schmidt number enhances them.