“…The effects of the governing parameters namely, the Reynolds number, the rheological parameter, the pressure gradient, the Darcy parameter, the Forchheimer quadratic drag parameter, the hydromagnetic parameter, the Schmidt number, the chemical reaction parameter and the Prandtl number, are discussed. In literature, many researchers (for example, Sinha and Misra 15 & Misra et al 16 ) have studied the steady flow through parallel plate channel to model the uniform blood flow through arteries. In some diseases, a porous structure is formed inside the arteries, by fatty substances (cholesterol and blood clots), as mentioned by Ritman and Lerman, 17 and Khaled and Vafai.…”