MHD three-dimensional flow of nanofluid with velocity slip and nonlinear thermal radiation

•Three-dimensional nanofluid flow with partial slip and nonlinear thermal radiation is studied.•Increasing values of velocity slip parameter decrease the velocity profiles.•The temperature increases via larger nanoparticle volume fraction.•Surface temperature gradient increases for higher temperature and radiation parameters.

An analysis has been carried out for the three dimensional flow of viscous nanofluid in the presence of partial slip and thermal radiation effects. The flow is induced by a permeable stretching surface. Water is treated as a base fluid and alumina as a nanoparticle. Fluid is electrically conducting in the presence of applied magnetic field. Entire different concept of nonlinear thermal radiation is utilized in the heat transfer process. Different from the previous literature, the nonlinear system for temperature distribution is solved and analyzed. Appropriate transformations reduce the nonlinear partial differential system to ordinary differential system. Convergent series solutions are computed for the velocity and temperature. Effects of different parameters on the velocity, temperature, skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number are computed and examined. It is concluded that heat transfer rate increases when temperature and radiation parameters are increased.