MHD Boundary Layer Casson Fluid Flow Over a Vertically Inclined Plate: Grid Study and Convergence Analysis of Finite Element Technique

The concerned research work is to study the characteristics of Casson fluid on mixed convective fluid flow past a moving vertically inclined plate in presence of magnetic field, thermal diffusion, diffusion thermo, heat and mass transfer effects. Formulated basic boundary layer governing equations have coupled non-linear partial differential equations, which are solved by finite element method. The impact of various emerging parameters on velocity, temperature, concentration profiles as well as skin-friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number coefficients are also discussed in detail. However, the temperature rises up with an increase in the viscous dissipation and diffusion thermo parameters. The enhancement in radiative parameter gives more heat to liquid due to which temperature is enhanced significantly. As the thermal diffusion parameter increases the thermal boundary layer thickness also increases. The velocity profiles decreases with an increase in Casson fluid and Angle of inclination parameters. Also, it is found that velocity profiles increases with the increasing values of thermal diffusion and diffusion thermo parameters whereas it decrease for magnetic field and chemical reaction parameters. The concentration is boost up for decreasing values of Schmidt number and Chemical reaction parameters. The obtained finite element results are in good agreement with earlier reported studies. This study is original and it has several applications, includes laminar magneto-aerodynamics, materials processing and magnetohydrodynamic propulsion thermo-fluid dynamics, etc.