Squeezing Nanofluid Flow between Two Parallel Plates under the Influence of MHD and Thermal Radiation

Abstract

This article addresses the squeezing nanofluid flow between two parallel plates under the influence of magneto hydrodynamics (MHD) and thermal radiation. One of the plates is fixed and the other is kept stretched. In this study water is considered as a base fluid. Heat and mass transfer aspects are examined in the presence of thermophoresis and Brownian motion.  Appropriate variables lead to a strong nonlinear ordinary differential system. The acquired nonlinear system has been solved via the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The convergence of the method has been shown numerically. Also, we obtained Skin friction, local Nusselt number and Sherwood number discussed with reference to flow parameters. The variation of the Skin friction, Nusselt number, Sherwood number and their impacts on the velocity, concentration and temperature profiles are examined.The effects of non-dimensional parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration have been discussed with the help of graphs for both suction and injection cases .Moreover, for comprehension the physical presentation of the embedded parameters, such as unsteady squeezing parameter, Thermal radiation parameter, Peclet number, Thermophoresis parameter, Levis number, Prandtl number, Schmidt number and Brownian motion are plotted and discussed graphically. At the end, we make some concluding remarks in the light of this article.