Electromagnetohydrodynamic and Reactive Transport Phenomena in Second Grade Fluids over Moving and Stretching Boundaries in Porous Media under Oscillatory and Unsteady Conditions
Abstract
The study of non Newtonian fluids has grown into one of the most important branches of modern fluid mechanics due to its strong relevance in polymer processing, biomedical engineering, geophysical flows, and advanced manufacturing systems. Among the many non Newtonian models, second grade fluids occupy a particularly important position because they are able to represent elastic effects, normal stress differences, and memory behavior while still allowing analytical and semi analytical treatment. When second grade fluids interact with magnetic fields, porous substrates, chemical reactions, and moving or oscillating boundaries, the resulting transport phenomena become highly nonlinear, coupled, and extremely sensitive to both physical and mathematical modeling assumptions. The references forming the basis of this research collectively address magnetohydrodynamic flows, Stokes problems, Couette flows, stretching and shrinking surfaces, porous media, and homotopy based analytical techniques. However, these studies remain scattered across different physical settings and mathematical approaches, often addressing isolated cases rather than offering an integrated theoretical perspective.
The present research develops a unified theoretical framework for understanding unsteady and oscillatory flows of second grade electrically conducting fluids in porous media over moving, stretching, shrinking, and oscillating boundaries with heat and mass transfer and chemical reactions. The framework is built strictly on the ideas, methods, and physical assumptions presented in the provided references, especially those of Cortell, Nazar, Tan and Masuoka, Hayat, Asghar, Yao, Liao, Abbasbandy, Nadeem, Erdogan, Vajravelu, Zeng, and Siddiqui. A comprehensive description of how magnetic fields, porosity, elastic effects, thermal boundary conditions, and surface kinematics interact to shape velocity, temperature, and concentration fields is provided in purely descriptive form, without mathematical expressions.
The homotopy analysis method plays a central role in this work because it allows the construction of convergent series solutions for highly nonlinear boundary layer and Stokes type problems. Drawing from Liao and Abbasbandy, the present study elaborates on how this method reveals the multiplicity of solutions, sensitivity to boundary conditions, and stability features of second grade fluid flows. By synthesizing results from oscillatory wall problems, stretching and shrinking sheet flows, and chemically reactive magnetohydrodynamic transport in porous media, the paper shows that these flows exhibit strong memory dependent behavior, enhanced or suppressed transport depending on magnetic and porous effects, and complex transient dynamics under unsteady forcing.