Effects of temperature-dependent viscosity and variable thermal conductivity on MHD non-Darcy mixed convective diffusion of species over a stretching sheet

Abstract

A numerical model is presented to study the effects of temperature-dependent viscosity and variable thermal conductivity on mixed convection problem. Two important types of wall heating conditions namely, prescribed surface temperature and prescribed wall heat flux which arise in polymer industries are considered. The problem is solved numerically by using the fifth-order Runge–Kutta Fehlberg method with shooting technique. It is found that the Prandtl number is to decrease the skin friction coefficient, local Nusselt number and local Sherwood number. The effects of non-uniform heat source/sink and porous parameter are analyzed on velocity, temperature, skin friction co-efficient, Nusselt and Sherwood numbers.