Role of Thermal Radiations in MHD Micropolar Nanofluid Flow over a Stretching/Shrinking Surface: Triple Solutions with Stability Analysis

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.28924/2291-8639-23-2025-290
Published: Nov 13, 2025
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Khuram Rafique, Gamal Elkahlout, Shamaila Kanwal, Role of Thermal Radiations in MHD Micropolar Nanofluid Flow over a Stretching/Shrinking Surface: Triple Solutions with Stability Analysis, Int. J. Anal. Appl., 23 (2025), 290.

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Khuram Rafique, Gamal Elkahlout, Shamaila Kanwal

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Enhancing thermal efficiency is one of the best strategies for optimizing energy resources. As a result, researchers have been working hard to develop novel ways to maximize the results of energy use. Researchers are becoming more and more interested in nanofluids because of their distinctive thermophysical characteristics and potential uses in thermal engineering systems, heating and cooling processes, nanotechnology, and biomedicine. This study presents a numerical investigation of heat and mass transfer analysis of micropolar nanofluid flow over a stretching/shrinking surface, by incorporating an inclined magnetic field, chemical reaction, and Soret effects. A suitable methodology is adopted to transform the governing boundary layer equations of fluid flow into dimensionless nonlinear ODEs. The stability analysis method is used to resolve coupled nonlinear differential equations with MATLAB software using the Bvp4c solver. Graphs are utilized to illustrate how dimensionless physical factors affect the velocity, temperature, and concentration patterns. It was concluded that increasing the values of the radiation parameter caused a decline in the temperature profile, whereas an increment in the Soret factor enhanced the temperature profile.

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