Hall current and thermophoresis effects on magnetohydrodynamic mixed convective heat and mass transfer thin film flow
Abstract
The combined influences of Hall current and thermophoresis on a magnetohydrodynamic mixed convective heat and mass transfer flow of a thin film second-grade fluid with viscous dissipation and thermal radiation past a stretching sheet are analyzed. An external strong and uniform magnetic field is applied transversely to the stretching sheet. The surface of the stretching sheet is taken to move with a linear velocity and subject to the constant reference temperature and concentration. Entropy generation is introduced to investigate the irreversibility associated with flow, heat and mass transfer. The basic governing equations for the velocities, temperature and concentration of the fluid motion have been modeled by employing appropriate similarity transformations which result in high nonlinear coupled differential equations with physical conditions. The solution of the transformed systems of equations has been achieved by employing Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM) which lead to detailed expressions for the velocities, temperature and concentration components. The obtained results are compared with the published results in the tables 3–5 demonstrating an excellent agreement and correlation. Graphs are discussed to elucidate the effects of various parameters.