Implication of forced convective flow of nanofluid towards an exponentially stretched surface: Non-similar transformations

This article presents the numerical scrutiny of the non-similar model of mixed convective flow of nanofluid initiated by an exponentially expanding sheet. Equations are modeled and transformed into non-dimensional partial differential system (PDE's) by defining dimensionless (Formula presented.) as non-similarity variable, and (Formula presented.) as pseudo-similarity variable along with appropriate transformations. Graphical analysis for various dimensionless numbers such as thermophoresis (Formula presented.), ratio of mass and heat transfer Grashof numbers (Formula presented.), Brownian motion (Formula presented.), buoyancy parameter (Formula presented.), Eckert number (Formula presented.) and Lewis number (Formula presented.) is presented using local non-similarity (LNS) via finite difference based algorithm bvp4c. A raised flow profile wasobserved with increasing (Formula presented.) and N. Boost in thermal profile was noticed for lager (Formula presented.) Increasing N and (Formula presented.) decreases the temperature profile. The concentration was a decreasing function of (Formula presented.) and N and increasing function of (Formula presented.).