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Abstract

The main objective of this work is to investigate the effect of thermal radiation on nonlinear mixed convective flow of a nanofluid between two vertical parallel plates. The governing equations are transformed into a system of nonlinear differential equations using suitable non-dimensional transformations. The resulting differential equations are solved using an efficient Adomian decomposition method. The effects of the physical parameters on the developments of flow, temperature, nanoparticle volume fraction, heat transfer and nanoparticle mass transfer characteristics between parallel plates are given and the salient features are discussed. The combined effects of change in different physical parameters on different profiles are displayed graphically and quantitatively.

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Keywords

Adomian Decomposition Method, Thermal Radiation, Nanofluid, Nonlinear Thermal Convection.