Abstract

This paper deals with the laminar incompressible flow of nanofluid over a circular sheet with heat and mass transfer. The model used for nanofluid contains the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoretic diffusion of nanoparticles simultaneously. The recently proposed boundary condition is considered which requires the mass flux of nanoparticles at the wall to be zero. The numerical solutions are obtained by Runge kutta sixth order method. The behavior of Brownian motion on the fluid temperature and wall heat transfer rate plays an important role. Further the nanoparticle volume fraction distribution is found to be negative near the vicinity of the stretching sheet.

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