Received: 24 May 2018 Revised: 4 June 2018 Accepted: 4 June 2018 DOI: 10.1002/htj.21344 RESEARCH ARTICLE Model for MHD viscoelastic nanofluid flow with prominence effects of radiation Azad Hussain 1 Lubna Sarwar 1 Sobia Akbar 1 M. Y. Malik 2,3 Saadia Ghafoor 1 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, India 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 3 Department of Mathematics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Correspondence Azad Hussain, Department of Mathematics, University of Gujrat, Gujrat 50700, India. Email: azad.hussain@uog.edu.pk Abstract Present phenomenon is dedicated to analyze the problem of steady state flow of an incompressible fluid model per- tained to as magnetohydrodynamics viscoelastic nanofluid through a permeable plate. Continuity, momentum, energy, and concentration expressions are elaborated to compre- hend nature of the fluid flow. Numerical solutions are pre- sented. The arising mathematical problem is governed by interesting parameters which include viscoelastic parame- ter, magnetic field parameter, nanofluid parameter, radia- tion parameter, skin friction, Prandtle number, and Sher- wood number. Solutions for the dimensionless velocity, temperature, and concentration fields and the correspond- ing skin friction, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number are determined and canvassed with the help of graphs for the distinct values of pertinent parameters. KEYWORDS magnetohydrodynamics, nanofluid, numerical solution, permeable plate, radiation effects, viscoelastic fluid model 1 INTRODUCTION Many researchers are devoting their time to study nanofluids behavior and properties for transfer of heat phenomena. Nanofluids can be used in different engineering fields such as cooling of electronic equip- ment, different chemical procedures, and heat exchangers. The thermophysical properties of nanofluids are beneficial for a number of industrial sectors. It has already been seen that efficiency and performance of the solar systems can be appreciably improved through nanoparticle working fluid. As far as literature survey is reviewed, 1–14 researchers did remarkable work on nanofluids. Buongiorno 15 studied about nanofluids in detail. Khanafer et al. 16 examined heat transfer increment due to adding of nanofluids in a heated enclosure. Sebdani et al. 17 investigated nanofluids for many fluid models. Chang et al. 18 Heat Transfer—Asian Res. 2018;1–20. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/htj © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 1