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Flow of Casson fluid with nanoparticles

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The boundary layer flow of a Casson fluid due to a stretching cylinder is discussed in the presence of nanoparticles and thermal radiation. All physical properties of the Casson fluid except the thermal conductivity are taken constant. Appropriate transformations yield the nonlinear ordinary differential systems. Convergent series solutions are developed and analyzed. The numerical results for the local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are demonstrated. It is found that an increase in the strength of the Brownian motion decays the temperature noticeably. However, the rate of heat transfer and the concentration of the nanoparticles at the surface increase for larger Brownian motion parameters.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University 45320, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan

    T. Hayat

  2. Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics (NAAM) Research Group, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

    T. Hayat & A. Alsaedi

  3. Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, 47040, Pakistan

    S. Asad

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Hayat, T., Asad, S. & Alsaedi, A. Flow of Casson fluid with nanoparticles. Appl. Math. Mech.-Engl. Ed. 37, 459–470 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-016-2047-9

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