Computational study of heat and mass transfer with Soret/Dufour effects on power-law magneto nanofluid flow along stretching surface.

The theme of this study is to investigate the theoretical and numerical simulation of heat and mass transfer of magneto hydrodynamic power-law nanofluid flow over a stretching sheet with surface heat flux and Soret/Dufour effects. The mass flux and energy flux increase with temperature and concentration differences using the Soret/Dufour impact. The similarity transformations were used to transform a physical problem into a non-linear differential equation, and the non-linear equations were solved by the Keller box technique. The Soret/Dufour and magnetic field are incorporated into a nanofluid model. The similarity transformation was used to reduce thermal energy, mass, and momentum in algebraic systems. The impact of nanofluid factors, such as generalized Brownian motion parameter N_b, Dufour parameter D_f, Soret parameter S_r, L_e, and P_r, are generalized Lewis and Prandtl numbers; the thermophoresis parameter N_t and magnetic parameter on dimensionless stretching surface functions are shown numerically and graphically. The quantitative relationship between heat transfer and skin friction is shown by using Keller box and MATLAB. The skin friction coefficient C_f, Sherwood number Sh_x, and Nusselt number Nu_x values were also computed and displayed on the graph. The increment in slip temperature, fluid velocity, and fluid concentration is enhanced with a high Dufour parameter. The temperature variation and fluid concentration are decreased with applied-magnetic effects because the magnetic field acts like an insulating material in heat transfer systems. The enhancement in the Nusselt number and Sherwood number is increased with Soret and Dufour effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]