The focus of the present study is to examine chemical reaction and Joule heating effects on steady flow of a viscous radiating fluid in a porous medium under the influence of variable viscosity. The fluid viscosity is assumed to vary exponentially with temperature. The governing equations of ow, heat and mass transfer are transformed into ordinary differential equations using appropriate similarity transformations. The converted ordinary differential equations are then solved numerically by using fourth order Runge-Kutta Fehlberg method. The effects of different pertinent parameters on the flow, heat and mass transfer characteristic are analyzed and discussed in detail through graphs and table. It is observed that larger values of variable viscosity parameter depreciates the fluid velocity.
This study investigates the chemical reaction influence on heat transfer flow of viscous Newtonian fluid over a moving surface under the intensity of nonuniform heat source/sink. Variable fluid viscosity and ohmic heating effects are considered in the model equation. The uniqueness of the present investigation is to scrutinize the significance of nonuniform heat source/sink and ohmic heating on the heat transfer flow of optically thin radiative fluid in a permeable medium. The flow equations of continuity, momentum, thermal and solutal fields are converted by invoking relevant dimensionless variables. Also, the converted nonlinear equations are analyzed numerically by using the fourth order Runge–Kutta Fehlberg approach. The significance of model parameters are scrutinized and discussed in detail via graphs and tables. The important findings of this study are the effects of Joule heating , viscous dissipation parameter , variable fluid property parameter and radiation parameter on fluid flow, energy profile and solutal field. The results show that the thermal field depreciates as the Prandtl number increases but escalates against higher values of Joule heating parameter and Brinkman number. Also, the outcome of this study reveals that an enhancement in the values of variable viscosity parameter declines velocity distribution. Concentration distributions behave as a growing function of the Soret number and diminishing function of the Schmidt number. Furthermore, contrasting this study with existing results reveals excellent agreement.
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