Chemical Reaction Effect on MHD Jeffery Fluid Flow over a Stretching Sheet Through Porous Media with Heat Generation/Absorption

The combined effect of heat and mass transfer in Jeffrey fluid flow through porous medium over a stretching sheet subject to transverse magnetic field in the presence of heat source/sink has been studied in this paper. The surface temperature and concentration are assumed to be of the power law form. The linear Darcy model takes care of the flow through saturated porous medium with uniform porosity. Further, first order chemical reaction rate has been considered to account for the effect of the reactive species, exhibiting non-Newtonian behaviour of Jeffery fluid model. Moreover, the present study analyses the result of previous authors’ as a particular case. The present work warrants attention to analytical method of solution by applying confluent Hypergeometric function and the fluid model considered here represents fluids of common interest such as solvent and polymers with zero shear-rate. The method of solution involves similarity transformation. The coupled non-linear partial differential equations representing momentum, concentration and non homogeneous heat equation are reduced into a set of non-linear ordinary differential equations. The transformed equations are solved by applying Kummer’s function. The effect of pertinent parameters characterizing the flow has been presented through the graph. Contributions of elasticity of the fluid, magnetic field and the porous matrix resist the motion of Jeffery fluid resulting a thinner boundary layer where as magnetic field and porous matrix contribute to enhance the temperature distribution in the flow domain. © 2016, Springer India Pvt. Ltd.