Conjugate Effects of Heat and Mass Transfer on Natural Convection Flow along an Isothermal Sphere with Radiation Heat Loss

Salina Aktar, Mahmuda Binte Mostafa Ruma, Md. Abdul Alim

Department of Engineering & Technology, Eastern University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Department of Mathematics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Department of Natural Science, Stamford University, Stamford, Bangladesh.

DOI: 10.4236/ojfd.2013.32012                

Abstract

Conjugate effects heat and mass transfer on free convection flow across an isothermal sphere immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid in the presence of species concentration with radiation heat loss has been investigated in this paper. The governing boundary layer equations are first transformed into a non-dimensional form and the resulting nonlinear systems of partial differential equations are then solved numerically using Finite—difference method with Keller-box Scheme. We have focused our attention on the evaluation velocity profiles, temperature profiles and species concentration profiles of the fluid as well as the local skin friction coefficient, local heat transfer rate and local species concentration transfer rate for a wide range of radiation parameter Rd, Schmidt number Sc and Prandlt number Pr.

Keywords

Natural Convection; Radiation Heat Loss; Skin-Friction; Nusselt Number; Schmidt Number; Prandlt Number

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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