On the motion of non-Newtonian Eyring-Powell fluid conveying tiny gold particles due to generalized surface slip velocity and buoyancy (Q1794738)

The study deals with the effects of surface slip velocity of a Eyring-Powell fluid within a thin layer on a paraboloid of revolution. Because of the presence of a catalyst on the surface, the quartic autocatalitic reaction with heat transfer takes place in the layer. The situation becomes more complex because of the stretching of the fluid layer at the paraboloid wall. After non-dimensionalizing the equations describing the flow, the authors obtain a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations that is solved with shooting techniques by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration scheme. This numerical scheme is successfully tested and used to investigate the dependence of the flow characteristics (such as velocity components, shear stress, temperature distribution, etc.) on the velocity slip parameter.