Research Article
MHD Williamson Nanofluid Flow over a Stretching Sheet through
a Porous Medium under Effects of Joule Heating, Nonlinear
Thermal Radiation, Heat Generation/Absorption, and
Chemical Reaction
J. Bouslimi ,
1
M. Omri,
2
R. A. Mohamed,
3
K. H. Mahmoud,
4
S. M. Abo-Dahab ,
3,5
and M. S. Soliman
3
1
Department of Physics, College of Science, Taif University, P. O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia
2
Deanship of Scientific Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
3
Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena 83523, Egypt
4
Department of Physics, College of Khurma University College, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia
5
Computer Science Department, Faculty of Computers and Information, Luxor University, Luxor, Egypt
Correspondence should be addressed to J. Bouslimi; jamelabouiyes4@gmail.com
Received 1 April 2021; Accepted 25 May 2021; Published 21 July 2021
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In this article, the effect of electromagnetic force with the effect of thermal radiation on the Williamson nanofluid on a stretching
surface through a porous medium was studied considering the effect of both heat generation/absorption and Joule heating. On the
other hand, the effect of Brownian motion and thermophoresis coefficients was considered. The system of nonlinear partial
differential equations governing the study of fluid flow has transformed into a system of ordinary differential equations using
similarity transformations and nondimensional variables which were subsequently solved numerically by using the Rung-Kutta
fourth-order method with shooting technique. Moreover, the effect of the resulting physical parameters on the distributions of
velocity, temperature, and concentration of nanoparticles has been studied by using graphical forms with an interest in
providing physical meanings to each parameter. Finally, special diagrams were made to explain the study of the effect of some
physical parameters on the skin friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number; these results led to reinforcement in the values
of the skin friction coefficient for the increased values of the magnetic field and the Darcy number while the effect on the local
Nusselt number by thermal radiation as well as the heat generation/absorption coefficients became negative.
1. Introduction
In recent years, the study of non-Newtonian fluids has
received the attention of researchers in the field of hydrody-
namics around the world due to the enormous scientific
developments in their applications. The Williamson fluid is
one of the most important non-Newtonian fluids character-
ized by less viscosity with an increase in the rate of shear
stress and very similar in its properties of polymeric solu-
tions, for example. In another meaning, in the Williamson
fluid model, the effective viscosity should lessen indefinitely
with the rising shear rate, which is nothing but infinite vis-
cosity at stationary and nil viscosity as the shear rate tends
to infinity. A model of Williamson has been discovered by
Williamson [1] in 1929, while Subbarayudu et al. [2] investi-
gated the assessment of time-dependent flow of Williamson
fluid with radiative blood flow against a wedge. On the other
hand, Lyubimova et al. [3] analyzed the stability of quasiequi-
librium states and supercritical regimes of thermal vibra-
tional convection of Williamson fluid in zero gravity
conditions, but multiple solutions for MHD transient flow
of Williamson nanofluids with convective heat transport
Hindawi
Advances in Mathematical Physics
Volume 2021, Article ID 9950993, 16 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9950993