Impact of Thermal Radiation and Buoyancy Forces on MHD Fluid Flow with Heat and Mass Transfer over a Permeable Stretching Sheet

This article employs the numerical approach to examine the impact of thermal radiation and Buoyancy effects of the nonlinear MHD fluid flow with heat and mass transfer characteristics of an incompressible, viscous, electrically conducting and Boussinesq fluid along a permeable vertical stretching sheet. A magnetic field is applied transversely to the direction of the flow. The fundamental equations governing flow, heat transfer, and concentration are reduced to a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations through similarity transformation. Quasi-linearization is used to first linearize the nonlinear ordinary differential equations before they are numerically solved using an implicit finite difference method. The Gauss-Seidal iterative method is then used to solve the system of algebraic equations. Graphical representations are used to show the influence of physical parameters on the velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles. Drawing velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles for various controlling factors reveals that the existence of buoyancy effects, thermal radiation, and magnetic field significantly affects the flow field.