LAUSR

The present work discusses the laminar boundary layer flow of an electrically conducting Casson fluid due to a horizontal perforated sheet undergoing linear shrinking/stretching with mass transpiration. Navier’s slip and second-order slip conditions are also imposed on the flow. The system is subjected to a transverse magnetic field. The non-Newtonian flow under consideration obeys the rheological equation of state due to the Casson model. The PDEs governing the bounder layer flow is reduced to a nonlinear boundary value problem in ODEs by utilizing appropriate similarity transformations and are expressed analytically. The similarity solution is found to be a function of the Casson parameter, magnetic parameter, mass suction/injection parameter, and the first/second-order slip parameters. Such a solution is either unique, or dual solutions exist in a region defined by the mass transfer induced slip parameter. The results of the present work are found to be an increase of the magnetic effects resulting in expansion of the unique solution region and contraction of the dual solution region for the flow due to the induced Lorentz force. In the unique solution region, an increase in magnitudes of mass suction induced slip and the first/second-order slip parameters result in a reduction of the wall shear stress in the shrinking sheet, while the wall shear stress with mass suction increases with the Casson and the magnetic effects. Similar results exist for the stretching sheet case with mass suction. However, only unique similarity solutions exist only for the case of stretching sheets with mass injection. The current work is a generalization of the classical works of Crane (1970) and Pavlov (1974) for a stretching sheet. Mass suction/injection induced slip enhances and achieves a dominant flow driven by reversing the flow direction of the moving sheet, which allows an adjacent flow against the sheet. The findings have possible industrial applications in fluid-based systems including stretchable/shrinkable things, automated cooling systems, power generation, microelectronics, and present new results to the problem.