Chemical Reaction and Radiative MHD Heat and Mass Transfer Flow with Temperature Dependent Viscosity Past an Isothermal Oscillating Cylinder

A numerical model is developed to study the effects of temperature-dependent viscosity on heat and mass transfer flow of magnetohydrodynamic(MHD) micropolar fluids with medium molecular weight along a permeable stretching surface embedded in a non-Darcian porous medium in the presence of viscous dissipation and chemical reaction. The governing boundary equations for momentum, angular momentum (microrotation), and energy and mass transfer are transformed to a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations by using similarity solutions which are then solved numerically by shooting technique. A comparison between the analytical and the numerical solutions has been included. The effects of the various physical parameters entering into the problem on velocity, microrotation, temperature and concentration profiles are presented graphically. Finally, the effects of pertinent parameters on local skin-friction coefficient, local Nusselt number and local Sherwood number are also presented graphically. One important observation is that for some kinds of mixtures (e.g., H2, air) with light and medium molecular weight, the magnetic field and temperature-dependent viscosity effects play a significant role and should be taken into consideration as well.

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Transient Magnetohydrodynamic Free Convective Heat and Mass Transfer Flow with Thermophoresis past a Radiate Inclined Permeable Plate in the Presence of Variable Chemical Reaction and Temperature Dependent Viscosity

Nonlinear Analysis Modelling and Control ◽

10.15388/na.2009.14.1.14525 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 3-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

M. S. Alam ◽

M. M. Rahman ◽

M. A. Sattar

Keyword(s):

Mass Transfer ◽

Differential Equations ◽

Heat And Mass Transfer ◽

Convective Heat ◽

Chemical Reaction ◽

Temperature Dependent ◽

Temperature Dependent Viscosity ◽

Variable Chemical ◽

Dependent Viscosity ◽

Transfer Flow

In the present study, an analysis is carried out to investigate the effects of variable chemical reaction, thermophoresis, temperature-dependent viscosity and thermal radiation on an unsteady MHD free convective heat and mass transfer flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting fluid past an impulsively started infinite inclined porous plate. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations are transformed into a system of ordinary differential equations, which are solved numerically using a sixth-order Runge-Kutta integration scheme with Nachtsheim-Swigert shooting method. Numerical results for the non-dimensional velocity, temperature and concentration profiles as well as the local skin-friction coefficient, the local Nusselt number and the local Stanton number are presented for different physical parameters. The results show that variable viscosity significantly increases viscous drag and rate of heat transfer. The results also show that higher order chemical reaction induces the concentration of the particles for a destructive reaction and reduces for a generative reaction.

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