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AMO – Advanced Modeling and Optimization, Volume 15 Number 3, 2013
Chemically reacting MHD free convection flow on a vertical porous plate in a porous
medium with Dufour effect.
A.J. Omowaye
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Federal University of Technology,
P.M.B 7 04,Akure,Ondo-State, Nigeria.
Abstract.
Unsteady flow of an incompressible electrically conducting viscous fluid past a semi-infinite
accelerating vertical porous medium is considered. The diffusion- thermo effect was taken
into consideration. The coupled partial differential equations describing the conservation of
mass, momentum and energy are obtained and solved analytically. The present analytical
results were compared with those available in the literature excellent agreement was
observed. The effects of flow parameters and thermo physical properties on the flow,
velocity, temperature and concentration fields across the boundary layer are investigated.
The forms of wall shear stress, Nusselt number and Sherwood number are derived. The fluid
velocity decreases as either Schmidt number, porosity parameter, Hartmann number
increased while temperature increased as Dufour number increased. The concentration
decreased as Schmidt number increased.
Keywords: Diffusion-thermo, MHD, free convection, chemically reacting, boundary layer.
Corresponding Author Email [email protected]
AMO - Advanced Modeling and Optimization. ISSN: 1841-4311
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1. INTRODUCTION
The problem of heat and mass transfer to unsteady magneto hydrodynamics (MHD) flow is
encountered in a variety of applications such as MHD power generator and pumps,
accelerators, aerodynamics heating, petroleum industry, electrostatic precipitation,
purification of crude and molten metals [[Schlicting,1986], [Sutton and Sharman,1965]].
Fluid convection at vertical plates resulting from buoyancy forces find applications in
several industrial and technological field such as nuclear reactors, heat exchangers,
electronic cooling equipments and aeronautics among others [Sutton and Sharman,1965].
Unsteady natural convection heat and mass transfer is of immense importance in the design
of control systems for modern free convection heat exchange devices. Furthermore, heat
transfer processes that required the evaluation of the performance of thermal equipment in the
unsteady free convection regime include start-up, shut-down, pump failure and so on. I must
remark here that ,free convection induced by temperature gradients has been studied
extensively by researchers with the assumption that other influences are so small that they are
neglected. Mean while, the study of transport phenomena in a porous media has attracted the
attension of theorists and experimentalists in recent years, due to its scope in various fields
of engineering and environmental sciences. In recent times porous media models are being
simulating more general situations such as flow through packed and fluidized beds. The
majority of the studies on convection heat transfer in porous media are based on Darcy’s
law [[Darcy,1856],[ Ingham and Pop,2002]].
[Chamkha,2002] discussed the problem of unsteady laminar combined forced-free
convection flow in a square cavity in the presence of internal heat generation/absorption and
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a magnetic field was formulated. Both the top and bottom horizontal walls of the cavity were
insulated while the left and right vertical walls were kept constant at different temperatures.
The left vertical wall was moving in its own plane at a constant speed while all other walls
fixed. A uniform magnetic field was applied in the horizontal direction normal to the
moving wall. A temperature dependent heat source or sink was assumed to exist within the
cavity .The governing equations were solved numerically by the finite-volume approach
along with alternating direct implicit (ADI) procedure. Parametric study was conducted and
the results was in agreement with the existing work in the literature. [Kham,2006] reported
unsteady boundary layer free convection flow of an incompressible electrically conduction
viscoelactic second order fluid over a vertical permeable flat plate, where temperature and
concentration were responsible for the convective buoyancy current. The flow was affected
by a constant suction of the fluid through the permeable wall in the presence of a
temperature-dependent heat source\sink and applied transverse magnetic field. This intricate
mathematical problem was solved analytically. The effect of various non-dimensional
physical parameters such as the viscoelastic parameter, Grashof number, modified Grashof
number, source/sink parameter, frequency parameter, time dependency parameter, Prandtl
number, Schmidt number, permeability parameter and magnetic parameter. Some of the
several findings of the results were the combined effects of increasing the values of
viscoelastic parameter, modified Grashof number and permeability parameter was to
enhance the horizontal velocity profile largely in the boundary layer. [Mansour et al,2007]
studied the effects of combined heat and mass diffusion effects in the presence of viscous
dissipation and chemical reaction in MHD natural convection flow saturated in porous media
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with suction or injection flows. An approximate numerical solution for the flow problem was
obtained by solving the governing equations using shooting technique with fourth order
Runge-Kutta integration scheme. The results obtained show that the flow field was
influenced appreciably by the presence of chemical reaction, viscous dissipation and suction
or injection flow. [Soundalgekar et al,1995] presented an exact solution to the flow of a
viscous incompressible fluid past an infinite vertical oscillating plate ,in the presence of a
foreign mass by Laplace transform technique when the plate temperature was linearly varying
as time .The velocity profiles were shown on graphs and numerical values of the skin-
friction were listed in a table. It was observed that the skin-friction increases with increasing
Sc, t ,or Gr but decrease with increasing Gm [Mansour etal,2007]studied MHD flow of a
micro polar fluid due to heat and mass transfer through a porous medium bounded by an
infinite vertical porous plate in the presence of a transverse magnetic field in slip-flow
regime .The effects of flow parameters and thermo physical properties on the flow,
temperature and concentration field across the boundary layer were discussed The form of
wall shear stress ,wall couple stress, Nusselt number and Sherwood number were derived .It
was shown that skin-friction coupled stress, heat transfer and mass transfer with various
values i showed complete oscillating nature.
In many transport processes in nature flow is driven by density differences caused by
temperature gradients, chemical composition gradients and material composition as
highlighted by [Gebhart and Pera,1971]. It is therefore important to study flow induced by
concentration differences independently of simultaneously with temperature differences when
heat and mass transfer occurs simultaneously in a moving fluid, the relationship between the
fluxes and the driving potentials are of a more intricate nature [Kafoussians and
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Williams,1995]. It has been found that an energy flux can be generated not only by
temperature gradients but by composition gradients as well. The energy flux caused by the
composition gradient is called the Dufour effect. If on the other hand, mass fluxes are created
by the temperature gradients, it is called the soret effect.. These effects are generally of a
small order of magnitude and are often neglected in heat and mass transfer processes [Jha and
Ajibade,2010]. However, soret and the Dufour effects have been found to be of importance as
the soret effect is utilized for isotope separation and in a mixture of gases of light and
medium molecular weight, the Dufour effects was found to be a considerable order of
magnitude such that it cannot be neglected [Eckert and Drake,1972].
Recently, [Beg et al,2007]obtained numerical solutions of chemically reacting mixed
convective heat and mass transfer along inclined and vertical plates with the soret and the
Dufour effects and concluded that skin friction increases with positive increase in
concentration-to-thermal-buoyancy ratio parameter (N). In the present analysis, it is proposed
to study unsteady free convective flow of an electrically conducting fluid with chemical
reaction and mass transfer past an accelerating vertical porous plate embedded in a porous
medium in the presence of Dufour and magnetic field. A novel feature of this work is to
present analytical solutions for velocity, temperature and concentration distributions and
these solutions are shown graphically. In addition ,the analytical solutions obtained in this
present work ,are very important as they serve as accuracy checks for experimental and
asymptotic method.
2. MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
The flow considered is an unsteady flow of an incompressible electrically conducting viscous
fluid past a semi-infinite accelerating vertical porous plate in a porous medium. A constant
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fluid suction or blowing is imposed at the plate surface with a uniform transverse magnetic
field. By assuming a very small magnetic Reynolds number the induced magnetic is
neglected. It is assumed that the plate surface temperature and concentration are varying
exponentially with time and a chemical species diffused into the ambient fluid, initiating a
first order irreversible chemical reaction. The x-axis is taking along the plate and y-axis is
taken normal to it. In the governing equations the temperature is governed by concentration,
leading to the diffusion – thermo(Dufour) effect. The flow configuration and co-ordinate
system is shown in fig 1
Figure 1: Flow configuration and coordinate system
Also, the Boussinesq approximation is invoked, thereby confining the density variation to the
buoyancy term. Based on these simplifying assumptions and discussion, the model equations
in dimensionless form after neglecting the bar system for clarity and assumed constant
suction the governing equations can be written as
2
2
2( )a
u u uM H u GrT GcC
t y y
(2.1)
2 2
2
2 2
1
Pr Pr
DT T T C
t y y y
(2.2)
0
mtUe g
,T C
x
y
u
v
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2
2
1C C CC
t y Sc y
(2.3)
with
, 0mt mt mtu he T e C e at y
0 , 0 0u T C as y (2.4)
The non-dimensional quantity introduced in the above equations are defined
as0
''
''
''
'''
0
''
0 ,,Pr,,,u
uh
CC
CCC
k
C
TT
TTT
utt
yuy
w
p
w
( 2.5)
22 0 1
22 2 2
( ) ( ) ( ), , , ,
( )
T w c w wa
w
g T T g C C D C CGr Sc Gc H D
v D v v T T
Here Pr
is the Prandtl number,D2 is the Dufour number, which is the coefficient of the
concentration-energy diffusion, Sc is the Schmidt number, Ha is the Hartmann number, Gr is
the temperature Grashof number and Gc is the mass Grashof number. The physical quantities
used in equation (2.5) are defined in the nomenclature. Without loss of generality, it has been
assumed that the fluid velocity, temperature and concentration vary exponentially in time
.Therefore, we take
( , ) ( ) ( , ) ( ) ( , ) ( )mt mt mtu y t F y e T y t y e C y t y e (2.6)
which transform equations (2.1)-(2.3) to ordinary differential equations of the form
'' ' 2( ) 0aF F m M H F Gr Gc (2.7)
'' ' ''Pr Pr 2 0m D (2.8)
'' ' ( ) 0Sc Sc m (2.9)
where m is a real number and the prime symbol denotes differentiation with respect to y.
The boundary conditions after transformation are
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1 1 0F h at y (2.10)
0 0 0 0F as y
Solving the system of second order ordinary differential equations (2.7)-(2.9) with boundary
conditions (2.10) we obtain the following results
F(y) = 8 1 2
5 6 7
a y a y a ya e a e a e
2 1
4 4( ) (1 )a y a y
y a e a e
1( )a y
y e
where the constants 1 8...a a are given in the appendix.
The skin friction coefficient, Nusselt number and the Sherwood number are important
physical parameters for this problem. These can be defined as
2
0 0
(0),f
y
dF duC
u dy dy
'
0 0
(0) ,( )
ww
w y
q dTNu q k
ku T T dy
'
0
(0) ,( )
ww
w w y
J dcSh J D
C C D dy
According to the analytical solutions reported before Cf ,Nu and Sh take on the respective
forms:
Cf = 721685 aaaaaa
Nu = 4142 )1( aaaa
Sh = 1a
3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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The present article has considered chemically reacting MHD free convection flow of a
viscous incompressible fluid on a vertical porous plate in a porous medium with the
Dufour effect. The governing equations along with the boundary conditions have been
solved in the preceeding section in order to give the details of flow fields, thermal and
concentration distributions. The effects of the main controlling parameters as they appear
in the governing equations are discussed in the current section. In the entire numerical
computations we have chosen t = 0,m = 0.5,h = 0.1 while Sc, 2D ,Ha ,M, Gr, Gc and
are varied over ranges which are listed in the figure legends. Since air and water are two
very important fluids, the choice of Pr are 0.71 and 7.0 corresponding to air and water
respectively. In air, the diffusing chemical species of common interest have Schmidt
numbers in the range 0.1-10,therefore this range is considered . For water, the species
H2,H2O,CO2,salt and propylBenezene are perphas the typical species of most interest
[Gebhart and Pera,1971]. In addition, we have focus attention on positive values of the
buoyancy parameters Gr > 0 (which corresponds to the cooling problem) and Gc >0
(which indicates that the free stream concentration is less than the concentration at the
boundary surface) . The cooling problem is often encountered in engineering applications
[Phiri and Makinde,2007].It should be noted that >0, =0 and <0 represent
destructive, no and generative chemical reactions respectively. The expressions for the
concentration, temperature, velocity, Nusselt number and skin-friction are presented
graphically in figs 2-17. Fig2 depicts the species concentration for different gases
hydrogen (H2 :Sc = 0.24) water vapour (H20: Sc = 0.60)and propyl Benzene :Sc =
2.62.The values of Schmidt number (Sc) are chosen to represent the most common
diffusing chemical species which are of interest. A comparison of curves in the figure
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shows a decrease in concentration distribution with an increase in Schmidt number
because the smaller values of Sc are equivalent to increasing chemical molecular
diffusivity (D).Hence, the concentration of the species is higher for small values of Sc and
lower for larger values of Sc ,this results is in agreement with [[Mansour et al,2007],[
Phiri and Makinde,2007],[Soundalgekar et al,1995]]. The concentration profiles also
decreases with increase in generative chemical reaction fig 3.Moreso,the concentration
profiles attain maximum values at the plate and decrease exponentially with y and finally
tends to zero as y tends to infinity. Figs 4-7 show variations of the temperature profiles
along the span-wise coordinate y for different values of Prandtl number, Dufour
number ,Schmidt number and generative chemical reaction. In fig 4, the temperature
decreases with increase in the Prandtl number. This is in agreement with physical fact that
the thermal boundary layer thickness decreases with increase in Prandtl number. The
reason underlying such a behavior is that the high Prandtl number fluid has a relatively
low thermal conductivity. This results in the reduction of the thermal boundary layer
thickness, this is in agreement with [[Chamkha,2003],[ Jha and Ajibade,2010],[ Mansour
et al,2007]]. Fig 5,shows an increase in temperature for different values of Dufour. It is
evident that Dufour effect assists the temperature of the fluid to increase. This means that
concentration exerts a greater influence on temperature this agrees with [Jha and
Ajibade,2010].Figs 6 and 7 show a typical variations in the temperature profiles along the
span wise coordinate y for different values of the Schmidt number and generative
chemical reaction parameter. The graphs show an increase in temperature as Schmidt
number and chemical reaction parameter increases. It is noteworthy in figs 4,6,7 that
,there exists an overshooting of the temperature for small values of Pr, Sc, (e.g. Pr=
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0.71,Sc = 0.24, =0.1),the temperature overshoot decreases with increasing Pr, Sc, and
vanishes for higher values of Pr, Sc, ( e.g. Pr= 7.0,Sc = 2.62, =0.9).In addition, in figs
4 -7 the fluid temperature reaches its maximum value at short distance from the plate and
decrease to zero value away from the plate. Figs 8-14 depict the velocity profiles for
different important parameters. Generally speaking, the streamwise velocity profiles show
an increase, a peak value near the wall of the porous plate and then decrease gradually to
free stream zero value far away from the plate. In fig8 the velocity of the fluid decreases
as Schmidt number increases. This reduction in velocity profiles is accompanied by
simultaneous reduction in the boundary layer thickness .This observation is in agreement
with those reported in [[Chamkha,2003],[ Phiri and Makinde,2007]]. Figs 9 and 10 depict
the influence of Grashof number (Gr) and mass Grashof number (Gc) on the velocity
profiles. Obviously increasing the Grashof number and mass Grashof number aids the
flow because buoyancy force which stretch the fluid ,produces higher fluid velocities. It is
in agreement with what is reported in [ [Chamkha,2003],[ Mansour et al,2007],[Phiri and
Makinde,2007],[ Soundalgekar et al,1995]].Moreover,fig11 reveals that on increasing the
values of the permeability parameter (M) the profiles of F tends to decrease this is in
agreement with what is reported in [[Ingham and Pop,2002],[ Mansour et al,2007],[Phiri
and Makinde,2007]].Also, it is observed that, keeping other parameter fixed, as Hartmann
number increases, the velocity decreases.
The presence of a magnetic field in an electrically conducting fluid introduces a force
called Lorentz force which acts against the flow if the magnetic field is applied in the
normal direction as considered in the present problem .This type of resistive force tends
to slow down the flow field. This result agree with what is reported in [[Chamkha, 2003],[
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Mansour et al,2007],[ Phiri and Makinde,2007]]. Figs 13 and 15 illustrate the influence of
chemical reaction parameter and Prandtl number on velocity profiles for various value of
these parameters. It is observed that there is decrease in velocity as these parameter
increases, this is in line with what are reported in [[Chamkha,2003],[ Mansour et al,2007],[
Phiri and Makinde,2007]]. In fig 14,we observed that the fluid velocity reaches its maximum
value at short distance from the plate and decreases to zero value away from the plate. It is
interesting to note that Dufour have effect of increasing the velocity of the fluid as reported
by [Jha and Ajibade,2010]. Fig 16 shows a reduction in skin friction at the plate surface with
increase in chemical reaction parameter and Hartmann number . Also, there is evidence that it
will converge at far distance from the plate. Figs 17 and 18 show the effect of Schmidt
number and chemical reaction parameter on Nusselt number and Sherwood number ,from
these figures we observed that both Nusselt number and Sherwood number increase with
increase in Schmidt number and chemical reaction parameter.
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Figure 2 : Concentration Profiles taking m = 0.5,g=0.1, 0.1 for
various Sc
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4y
C(y)Sc =0.24
Sc=0.60
Sc = 2.62
Figure 3: Concentration Profiles taking m =0.5,Sc = 0.24 for various
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4y
C (y) 0.1
0.5
0.9
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Figure 6:Temperature profiles taking Pr = 0.71,m = 0.5,D2 = 2.0, =
0.1 for various Sc
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10y
( y )
Sc = 0.24
Sc = 0.60
Sc = 2.62
Figure 7: Temperature profiles taking Pr =m 0.71,m = 0.5,D2 = 2.0,
Sc = 0.24 for various
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10y
( y ) 0.1
0.4
0.9
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Figure 8: Velocity profiles taking D2 = 2.0,Pr = 0.71,M = 2.0,h = 0.1,Gc
= 2.0,Gr = 3.0,Sc = 0.24,Ha = 0.1, = 0.1 for various Sc
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10y
F ( y )Sc = 0.24
Sc = 0.60
Sc = 0.78
Figure 9:Velocity profiles taking Pr = 0.71,M = 2.0,D2 = 2.0,Gr =
3.0,Sc = 0.24,Ha = 0.1, = 0.1 for various Gc
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
y
F ( y )
Gc = 2.0
Gc = 4.0
Gc = 6.0
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Figure 10: Velocity profiles taking Pr = 0.71,h = 0.1,Gc = 2.0,D2 =
2.0,Gc = 2.0,D2 = 2.0,Ha = 0.1Sc = 0.24, = 0.1 for various Gr
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10y
F ( y )
Gr =3.0
Gr = 6.0
Gr = 9.0
Figure 11:Velocity profiles taking Pr = 0.71,h = 0.1,Gr = 3.0,Gc =
2.0,Sc = 0.24, D2 = 2.0,Ha = 0.1, = 0.1 for various M
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10y
F ( y )M = 2.0
M = 4.0
M = 6.0
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F ig 12:Velocity profiles taking Pr = 0.71,D2 = 2.0,M = 2.0,Sc = 0.24,Gr
= 3.0,Gc = 2.0,h = 0.1,g = 0.1 for various Ha
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
y
F ( y)Ha = 0.1
Ha = 0.3
Ha = 0.5
Figure 13:Velocity profiles taking Pr = 0.71,M = 2.0,D2 = 2.0,Gr =
3.0,Gc = 2.0,Ha = 0.1,Sc = 0.24 for various
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
y
F ( y )
0.1
0.4
0.9
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Figure 15:Velocity profiles taking Sc =0.24,M = 2.0,Gr = 3.0,Gc = 2.0,h
= 0.1,Ha = 0.1,D2 = 2.0, = 0.1 for various Pr
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10y
F ( y ) Pr = 0.71
Pr = 2.0
Pr = 7.0
Figure 16: Skin-friction coefficient taking Pr = 0.71,Sc = 0.24
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2
Ha
Cf 0.1
0.4
0.9
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Figure 17:Temperature gradient
-18.4
-16.4
-14.4
-12.4
-10.4
-8.4
-6.4
-4.4
-2.4
-0.4 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4
PrNu
Sc = 0.24
Sc = 0.62
Sc = 2.62
4. CONCLUDING REMARK
The general problem of chemically reacting MHD free convective flow on a vertical porous
plate in a porous medium with Dufour effect has been studied theoretically and solved
exactly without approximations. The parameters that govern the flow situation are Prandtl
number, Schmidt number, chemical reaction parameter ,Grashof number, mass Grashof
number , Dufour number, Hartmann number and porous parameter. Extensive computations
have been carried out for different values of these parameters entering in the problem and
their results are presented graphically .We must remark that Dufour effect exerts a very
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significant influence on the temperature and velocity distribution. The main conclusions of
the present work are as follows :
1. The fluid velocity decreased as either Schmidt number ,porosity parameter, Hartmann
number, chemical reaction parameter, Prandtl number increased while the velocity
increased as thermal Grashof number, mass Grashof number and Dufour number
increased.
2. The fluid temperature decreased as Prandtl number increased and increased as
Dufour number ,Schmidt number and chemical reaction parameter increased.
3. The fluid concentration decreased as Schmidt and chemical reaction parameter
increased.
4. The skin-friction coefficient decreased as chemical reaction parameter increased.
5. The Nusselt number and Sherwood number increased as Schmidt and chemical
reaction parameter increased.
NOMENCLATURE
C – Concentration
Cw- Wall concentration
C∞- Ambient concentration
Cp- Specific heat at constant pressure
Cf- Skin- friction coefficient
D- Mass diffusion coefficient
D2- Dufour number
D1-Dimensional coefficient of the
diffusion-thermo effect.
F- Dimensionless velocity
g- Acceleration due to gravity
Gc-Mass Grashof number
Gr- Thermal Grashof number
Jw-Rate of transfer of species
concentration
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K- Fluid thermal conductivity
M- Porosity parameter
Nu- Nusselt number
Pr-Prandtl number
qw- Local surface heat flux
Sc- Schmidt number
Sh- Sherwood number
T- Fluid temperature
T∞-Ambient temperature
Tw-Wall temperature
t- Time
U- Plate velocity parameter
u- Velocity of the fluid in the upward
direction
v- Velocity of the fluid in the
horizontal direction
x- Coordinate axis along the plate in
the vertically upward direction.
y-Coordinate axis normal (horizontal)
to the plate
m,h-Real numbers
Greek Symbol
α- Thermal diffusivity
βc-Coefficient of concentration
expansion
βT- Coefficient of thermal expansion
β0-Magnetic induction
ρ- Fluid density
ν- Kinematic viscosity
μ- Fluid dynamic viscosity
σ-Fluid electrical conductivity
γ-Chemical reaction parameter
θ-Dimensionless temperature
- Dimensionless concentration
- Local wall shear stress
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APPENDIX
2
1
( ) 4( )
2
Sc Sc ma
2
2
(Pr) 4 Pr
2
Sc ma
3 4(1 )a a
2
14 2
1 1
2
( Pr Pr)
D aa
a a m
5 6 7( )a h a a
46 2 2
1 1
( )
( ( )a
Gc Graa
a a m M H
4
7 2 2
2 2
(1 )
( ( )a
Gr aa
a a m M H
2
8
1 1 4( )
2
am M Ha
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