Radiation Effects on MHD Boundary Layer Slip Flow Along A Stretching Cylinder with Cross Diffusion

An analysis of steady MHD axi-symmetric laminar boundary layer flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting and radiating fluid towards a stretching cylinder in the presence of Soret and Dufour effects with heat and mass transfer is presented. The Rosseland approximation is used to describe the radiative heat transfer in the limit of optically thick fluids. Instead of no-slip conditions at the boundary, partial slip is considered. The governing partial differential equations are non-dimensionalized and transformed into a system of non-linear ordinary differential similarity equations, in a single independent variable. The resulting coupled non-linear equations are solved under appropriate transformed boundary conditions using the Runge-Kutta fouth order method along with the shooting method. The effects of the radiation parameter, magnetic parameter, Soret number and Dufour number and buoyancy parameter on the velocity, temperature and concentration are plotted graphically and discussed.