Study of two-dimensional boundary layer thin film fluid flow with variable thermo-physical properties in three dimensions space

Abstract

The conversion of study in two dimensional (x, y) medium into three dimensions space (x, y, z) of a magnetohydrodynamic mixed convective heat and mass transfer boundary layer flow of a thin film second-grade fluid with temperature dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity in the presence of thermal radiation and viscous dissipation past a stretching sheet is analyzed. The occurrence of Hall current in two dimensional (x, y) medium produces a force in z-direction which generates a cross flow in that direction and so the motion is made in three dimensions space (x, y, z). Similarity transformations are used and the transformed system of equations of the problem has been solved by utilizing homotopy analysis method. The salient impacts of the emerging parameters on velocities, temperature and concentration fields have been displayed graphically and illustrated. � 2018 Author(s).