AN ANALYTIC INVESTIGATION OF CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY-LAYER FLOW OF A NANOFLUID PAST A STRETCHING SHEET WITH RADIATION

Abstract

The solution of laminar fluid flow which results from the stretching of a flat surface in a nanofluid has been obtained using the Adomian Decomposition Method. The model used for the nanofluid was presented in its rectangular form and incorporates both the convective effect, thermal radiative effect and the effect of Brownian motion and thermomophoresis. A similarity solution is presented which depends on both thermal and concentration Grashof number , , the Prandtl number Pr, Schmidt number Sc, Radiation Ra, Lewis number Le, Brownian motion number Nb and thermophoresis number Nt. In the results presented graphically it is observed that both thermal and concentration Grashof number enhance the velocity, temperature and concentration profile of the fluid