Chemical Reaction and Thermal Radiation Effects on MHD Mixed Convection over a Vertical Plate with Variable Fluid Properties

Abstract:

This article investigates the magnetohydrodynamic mixed convective heat, and mass transfer flow of an incompressible, viscous, Boussinesq, electrically conducting fluid from a vertical plate in a sparsely packed porous medium in the presence of thermal radiation and an nth order homogeneous chemical reaction between the fluid and the diffusing species numerically. In this investigation, the fluid and porous properties like thermal and solutal diffusivity, permeability and porosity are all considered to be vary. The governing non-linear PDE's for the fluid flow are derived and transformed into a system of ODE's using an appropriate similarity transformation. The resultant equations are solved numerically using shooting technique and Runge-Kutta integral scheme with the help of Newton-Raphson algorithm in order to know the characteristics of the fluid for various non-dimensional parameters which are controlling the physical system graphically. The results of the numerical scheme are validated and a numerical comparison has been made with the available literature in the absence of some parameters and found that in good agreement. Nomenclature

• Periodical: Defect and Diffusion Forum (Volume 387)
• Pages: 332-342
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.387.332
• Online since: September 2018
• Authors: R. Suresh Babu*, B. Rushi Kumar, Oluwole Daniel Makinde
• Keywords: Chemical Reaction, MHD, Shooting Technique, Thermal Radiation, Variable Fluid Properties, Vertical Plate

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