Publications

Non-Newtonian fluid flow in porous media has variety of usefulness and applications in various fields of humanendeavours. This work is aimed at studying non-isothermal reacting MHD flow with a view of investigating the detailedeffects of various physical parameters of a stretching sheet through a saturated porous medium. In this work, variable thermalconductivity on a radiative MHD boundary layer flow of an incompressible, viscous, and electrically fluid over a nonisothermalstretching sheet through a saturated porous medium is considered. It is assumed that the fluid has chemical andreact satisfying Arrhenius law. The governing partial differential equations were transformed into ordinary differentialequations in terms of suitable similarity variable. Galerkin weighted residual method is employed to solve the resulting nonlinearequation. The results showed the effects of variable thermal conductivity parameter, radiation parameter, Frank-Kamenetskii parameter, magnetic parameter, Prandtl number and Schmidt number on the system of flow. The effects of variousphysical parameters on the flow system were reported graphically. It is concluded from the analysis of the problem that thermalradiation parameter, thermal conductivity parameter and the Prandtl number greatly affect the mass flow and the energytransfer phenomena in the system.