Effect of Nonlinear Thermal Radiation on MHD Flow between Rotating Plates with Homogeneous-Heterogeneous Reactions

In this study we investigated the effect of nonlinear thermal radiation on magnetohydrodynamic flow between horizontal rotating plates in the presence of homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions. By making use of the appropriate similarity transformations, the equations which govern the flow are reduced to a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Further, these equations are solved numerically using the Runge-Kutta based shooting technique. Also, the effects of various pertinent parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration profiles along with the friction factor, local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are discussed and presented with the help of graphs and tables. We found an excellent agreement of the present results with the existed literature under some special limited cases. Results indicate that concentration profiles are highly influenced by the homogeneous-heterogeneous parameters. Nonlinear thermal radiation have tendency to enhance the thermal boundary layer thickness.