Slip Flow of Casson Rheological Fluid Under Variable Thermal Conductivity with Radiation Effects

This paper investigates the radiation and chemical reaction effects on Casson non-Newtonian fluid towards a porous stretching surface in the presence of thermal and hydrodynamic slip conditions. The governing boundary layer conservation equations are normalized into nonsimilar form using similarity transformations. A numerical approach is applied to the resultant equations. The behavior of the velocity, temperature, concentration, as well as the skin friction coefficient, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number for various governing physical are discussed. Increasing the radiation parameter decreases the temperature. An increase in the rheological parameter (Casson parameter) induces an elevation in the skin friction coefficient, the heat and mass transfer rates. The larger the β values the closer the fluid is in behavior to a Newtonian fluid and further departs from plastic flow. Temperature of the fluid was found to decrease with increasing values of the Casson rheological parameter. The most important non-Newtonian fluid possessing a yield value is the rheological Casson fluid, which finds significant applications in polymer processing industries, biomechanics, and chocolate food processing.