Radiation Effect On Boundary Layer Flow Of A Non Newtonian Jeffrey Fluid Past An Inclined Vertical Plate

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Many modern engineering applications involve the study of non-Newtonian fluids. Analysis of non-Newtonian fluids have been the effort of several investigations during the past few decades because of its extensive engineering and industrial applications. Especially, flow and heat transfer of non-Newtonian fluids play an important role in food engineering, petroleum production, power engineering, in polymer solutions and in polymer melt in the plastic processing industries. The constitutive Jeffery fluid model is explained is [1, 4, 6, 7, 18, 23] and they have included several different physical effects. These flows appear in a wide variety of engineering applications, as well as in many natural conditions such as geothermal extraction, storage of nuclear waste material, oil recovery procedures, ground water flows, etc. Thus researchers are attracted to investigate its thermo physical properties. The heat transfer from inclined surfaces finds numerous applications in solar energy systems, geophysics, materials processing, etc. Many studies have appeared concerning natural and also mixed convection flows. Kierkus [10] studied isothermal inclined plate natural convection boundary layer flow using a perturbation method for a Prandtl number of 0.7. Fujii and Imura [5] studied experimentally free convection from an inclined plate. Uniform surface flux effects on inclined plate thermal convection were reported by Armaly, et al. [2]. Wickern [24] examined the laminar boundary layer flow over an arbitrarily sloping plate showing that for opposing buoyancy forces singular as well as regular behaviour may prevail. Nagendra et al. [11] Investigated numerical analysis of non-Newtonian Fluid from a sphere with the presence of Nano particles. Satyanarayana and Harish [3] discussed Numerical study of MHD heat and mass transfer of a Jeffrey fluid over a stretching sheet with chemical reaction and thermal radiation. Hayat et al. [8] studied Soret and Dufour effects on MHD Peristaltic Flow of Jeffrey Fluid in a Rotating System with Porous Medium. Subba Rao, et al. [18] investigated Thermal Radiation Effects on Oldroyd-B Nano Fluid from a Stretching Sheet in a Non-Darcy Porous Medium and he has used the Keller Box method. Subba Reddy, et al. [20] explained Slip effects on the peristaltic motion of a Jeffrey fluid through a porous medium in an asymmetric channel under the effect magnetic field.