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Flow and heat transfer of nanofluid past stretching/shrinking sheet with partial slip boundary conditions

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The boundary layer flow of a nanofluid past a stretching/shrinking sheet with hydrodynamic and thermal slip boundary conditions is studied. Numerical solutions to the governing equations are obtained using a shooting method. The results are found for the skin friction coefficient, the local Nusselt number, and the local Sherwood number as well as the velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles for some values of the velocity slip parameter, thermal slip parameter, stretching/shrinking parameter, thermophoresis parameter, and Brownian motion parameter. The results show that the local Nusselt number, which represents the heat transfer rate, is lower for higher values of thermal slip parameter, thermophoresis parameter, and Brownian motion parameter.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Technology and Human Development, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Johor, 86400, Malaysia

    S. Mansur

  2. Centre of Modelling and Data Analysis, School of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, 43600, Malaysia

    A. Ishak

  3. Department of Mathematics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 400084, Romania

    I. Pop

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Project supported by the Ministry of Higher Education in Malaysia (No. FRGS/1/2012/SG04/UKM/2001/1) and the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (No. DIP-2012-31)

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Mansur, S., Ishak, A. & Pop, I. Flow and heat transfer of nanofluid past stretching/shrinking sheet with partial slip boundary conditions. Appl. Math. Mech.-Engl. Ed. 35, 1401–1410 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-014-1878-7

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