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Analyzed in this paper is an investigation of the impacts of the varying source of heat or thermal sink and viscous dissipation on Casson fluid flow from a moving wedge by considering thermal and momentum slips in a mathematical model. Regarding the regulation of concentration fields, we incorporated the Soret and Dufour phenomena. The outcomes are analyzed numerically by using the shooting technique. The governing parametric effects of the flow characteristics are revealed graphically. We also presented the local Sherwood and Nusselt number values for non-Newtonian fluid (Casson fluid) and Newtonian. It is discovered that the thermal and concentration boundary layer is more extensive in Casson fluid while equated with the Newtonian fluid. The thermal and mass transmission in Newtonian fluid is significantly larger than in non-Newtonian fluid. The heat source/sink, Eckert number and Dufour number boost the rate of thermal transport and depreciate the rate of mass transport for both the Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nanofluid flow has acquired various interesting dimensions with the advent of several novel approaches to studying thermophysical properties. The present work focuses on a comparative study of clear viscous and nanofluid ( E G − A l 2 O 3 , E G − Z r , H 2 O − A l 2 O 3 , H 2 O − Z r ) flow in a two-phase inclined channel saturated with a porous medium in the presence of thermal radiation, species diffusion, and viscous and Darcy dissipation effects. The controlling equations of the flow model were solved analytically using the regular perturbation technique. The graphical solutions are used to examine the impacts of physical parameters on the most significant flow features. Surface graphs with distinct entrenched parameters represent heat transfer rates and shear stresses on plates. The resulting heat transfer was enhanced by raising the thermal and solute buoyancy strengths, while thermal radiation had the opposite outcome. This enhancement of temperature was maximum for water–zirconium and minimum for ethylene glycol–aluminum oxide nanofluid. The concentration of the entire fluid medium is reduced by decreased mass diffusivity. The enhancement of temperature and velocity is found to be maximum in the nanofluid region and clear fluid region, respectively. This study is validated with previously published works to demonstrate its effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]