| Summary: | The aim of the present study is to examine the convective heat transfer of nanofluid past a wedge subject to
first-order chemical reaction, heat generation/absorption and suction effects. The influence of wedge angle
parameter, thermophoresis, Dufour and Soret type diffusivity are included. The local similarity transformation
is applied to convert the governing nonlinear partial differential equations into ordinary differential equations.
Shooting method integrated with fourth-order Runge-Kutta method is used to solve the ordinary differential
equations. The skin friction, heat and mass transfer rates as well as the effects of various parameters on
velocity, temperature and solutal concentration profiles are analyzed. The results indicate that when the
chemical reaction parameter increases, the heat transfer coefficient increases while the mass transfer
coefficient decreases. The effect of chemical reaction parameter is very important in solutal concentration
field compared to velocity and temperature profiles since it decreases the solutal concentration of the
nanoparticle.
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