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This work investigates the effects of combined variable viscosity and thermal conductivity, nonlinear radiation and non-Darcian porous medium on a boundary layer MHD Casson nanofluid flow over a vertical flat plate with convective heating and velocity slip boundary conditions. The governing transport nonlinear partial differential equations and the boundary conditions are non-dimensionalized. The resulting system of coupled partial differential equations is then reduced to a set of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations using similarity transformation. Galerkin weighted residual method (GWRM) is then employed to solve the resulting set of equations. Numerical results are obtained for dimensionless velocity, temperature and nanoparticle volume fraction (nanoparticle concentration). It is found that the velocity increases, while both temperature and nanoparticle volume fraction decrease with increased values of variable thermal conductivity and viscosity. Comparisons are carried out with published data in the literature thereby validating the numerical results. An excellent agreement is observed. Furthermore, this present study can find applications in the process involving nanofluid operations.

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In this paper we analyse the effects of internal heat generation, thermal radiation and buoyancy force on the laminar boundary layer about a vertical plate in a uniform stream of fluid under a convective surface boundary condition. In the analysis, we assumed that the left surface of the plate is in contact with a hot fluid whilst a stream of cold fluid flows steadily over the right surface; the heat source decays exponentially outwards from the surface of the plate. The similarity variable method was applied to the steady state governing non-linear partial differential equations, which were transformed into a set of coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations and were solved numerically by applying a shooting iteration technique together with a sixth-order Runge-Kutta integration scheme for better accuracy. The effects of the Prandtl number, the local Biot number, the internal heat generation parameter, thermal radiation and the local Grashof number on the velocity and temperature profiles are illustrated and interpreted in physical terms. A comparison with previously published results on similar special cases showed excellent agreement.

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