Impact of Navier’s slip and chemical reaction on the hydromagnetic hybrid nanofluid flow and mass transfer due to porous stretching sheet

Hybrid nanofluids (HNFs) comprise combinations of different nanoparticles suspended in base fluid. Applications of such nanofluids are rising in the areas of energy and biomedical engineering including smart (functional) coatings. Motivated by these developments, the present article examines theoretically the magnetohydrodynamic coating boundary layer flow of HNFs from a stretching sheet under the transverse magnetic field in porous media with chemically reactive nanoparticles. Darcy’s law is deployed. Momentum slips of both first and second order are included as is solutal slip. The transformed boundary value problem is solved analytically. Closed form solutions for velocity are derived in terms of exponential functions and for the concentration field in terms of incomplete Gamma functions by the application of the Laplace transformation technique. The influence of selected parameters e.g. suction/injection, magnetic field and slips on velocity and concentration distributions are visualized graphically. Concentration magnitudes are elevated with stronger magnetic field whereas they are suppressed with greater wall solutal slip. Magnetic field suppresses velocity and increases the thickness of the hydrodynamic boundary layer. The flow is accelerated with reduction in inverse Darcy number and stronger suction direct to reduce in skin friction. The concentration magnitudes are boosted with magnetic field whereas they are depleted with increasing solutal slip. The analysis provides a good foundation for further investigations using numerical methods.