Soret and Dufour Effects in Computational Analysis of Assisting and Opposing Stagnation Point Flow of Viscoelastic Fluid
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Soret and Dufour Effects in Computational Analysis of Assisting and Opposing Stagnation Point Flow of Viscoelastic Fluid

1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, Baba Guru Nanak University, Nankana Sahib 39100, Pakistan
2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Lahore, Sargodha Campus, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan
3 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Sargodha, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan
4 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 39000, Pakistan
5 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh 13314, Saudi Arabia
* Corresponding Author: Asifa Ilyas, [email protected]
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The investigation of stagnation point flow in viscoelastic fluid through a vertical sheet with Soret and Dufour effects is the focus of this study. Stream functions and similarity variables simplify the governing partial differential equations into ordinary differential equations. The model is then integrated using the MATLAB built-in solver bvp4c. In graphs and tables, the solutions for temperature profile, velocity distribution, and mass concentration, as well as their gradients at the surface, are depicted under the influence of emergent parameters that occurred in the flow equations. Physical reasoning is used to discuss the physical attitudes of physical unknown quantities of interest under the influence of various parameters. The results show that raising the viscoelastic parameter K leads to an increase in temperature and concentration profiles, but to a decrease in velocity for assisting flow. Opposing flow has a similar occurrence, with minor differences. The graphical results show that as the Dufour number Du is increased for assisting flow, fluid velocity and temperature increase with no discernible change in concentration profile. The temperature and concentration profiles intensify with increasing Du behavior in the situation of opposing flow velocity. It's worth noting that when the Soret number Sr is increased, the velocity curves increase, but the opposite is true for temperature and concentration profiles. Physical quantities' attitudes toward the above-mentioned parameters are in line with physical phenomena.

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Soret and Dufour Effects in Computational Analysis of Assisting and Opposing Stagnation Point Flow of Viscoelastic Fluid

Keywords

viscoelastic fluid stagnation point flow computational analysis soret and dufour effects vertical surface

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Abbas, A., Ain, Q. U., Ilyas, A., Kiran, L., & Jeelani, M. B. (2025). Soret and Dufour Effects in Computational Analysis of Assisting and Opposing Stagnation Point Flow of Viscoelastic Fluid. Computational Environmental Heat Transfer, 1(1), 27–38. https://doi.org/10.62762/CEHT.2025.786259
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@article{Abbas2025Soret,
  author = {Amir Abbas and Qurat ul Ain and Asifa Ilyas and Laraib Kiran and Mdi Begum Jeelani},
  title = {Soret and Dufour Effects in Computational Analysis of Assisting and Opposing Stagnation Point Flow of Viscoelastic Fluid},
  journal = {Computational Environmental Heat Transfer},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {1},
  number = {1},
  pages = {27-38},
  doi = {10.62762/CEHT.2025.786259},
  url = {https://www.icck.org/article/abs/CEHT.2025.786259},
  abstract = {The investigation of stagnation point flow in viscoelastic fluid through a vertical sheet with Soret and Dufour effects is the focus of this study. Stream functions and similarity variables simplify the governing partial differential equations into ordinary differential equations. The model is then integrated using the MATLAB built-in solver bvp4c. In graphs and tables, the solutions for temperature profile, velocity distribution, and mass concentration, as well as their gradients at the surface, are depicted under the influence of emergent parameters that occurred in the flow equations. Physical reasoning is used to discuss the physical attitudes of physical unknown quantities of interest under the influence of various parameters. The results show that raising the viscoelastic parameter K leads to an increase in temperature and concentration profiles, but to a decrease in velocity for assisting flow. Opposing flow has a similar occurrence, with minor differences. The graphical results show that as the Dufour number Du is increased for assisting flow, fluid velocity and temperature increase with no discernible change in concentration profile. The temperature and concentration profiles intensify with increasing Du behavior in the situation of opposing flow velocity. It's worth noting that when the Soret number Sr is increased, the velocity curves increase, but the opposite is true for temperature and concentration profiles. Physical quantities' attitudes toward the above-mentioned parameters are in line with physical phenomena.},
  keywords = {viscoelastic fluid, stagnation point flow, computational analysis, soret and dufour effects, vertical surface},
  issn = {3068-5486},
  publisher = {Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge}
}

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