Heat and Mass Transfer in MHD Visco-Elastic Fluid Flow through a Porous Medium over a Stretching Sheet with Chemical Reaction

Saleh M. Alharbi, Mohamed A. A. Bazid, Mahmoud S. El Gendy

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DOI: 10.4236/am.2010.16059                

Abstract

This paper presents the study of convective heat and mass transfer characteristics of an incompressible MHD visco-elastic fluid flow immersed in a porous medium over a stretching sheet with chemical reaction and thermal stratification effects. The resultant governing boundary layer equations are highly non-linear and coupled form of partial differential equations, and they have been solved by using fourth order Runge-Kutta integration scheme with Newton Raphson shooting method. Numerical computations are carried out for the non-dimensional physical parameters. Here a numerical has been carried out to study the effect of different physical parameters such as visco-elasticity, permeability of the porous medium, magnetic field, Grashof number, Schmidt number, heat source parameter and chemical reaction parameter on the flow, heat and mass transfer characteristics.

Keywords

Heat and Mass Transfer, Incompressible MHD, Visco-Elastic, Porous Medium, Chemical Reaction

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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