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Radiation Effects on Mass Transfer Flow through a Highly Porous Medium with Heat Generation and Chemical Reaction
Author(s) -
S. Mohammed Ibrahim
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
isrn computational mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2090-7842
DOI - 10.1155/2013/765408
Subject(s) - nusselt number , sherwood number , mechanics , porous medium , thermal radiation , heat transfer , heat generation , thermodynamics , compressibility , radiative transfer , mass transfer , dimensionless quantity , natural convection , heat transfer coefficient , materials science , porosity , physics , optics , reynolds number , turbulence , composite material
The present paper is concerned to analyze the influence of the unsteady free convection flow of a viscous incompressible fluid through a porous medium with high porosity bounded by a vertical infinite moving plate in the presence of thermal radiation, heat generation, and chemical reaction. The fluid is considered to be gray, absorbing, and emitting but nonscattering medium, and Rosseland approximation is considered to describe the radiative heat flux in the energy equation. The dimensionless governing equations for this investigation are solved analytically using perturbation technique. The effects of various governing parameters on the velocity, temperature, concentration, skin-friction coefficient, Nusselt number and Sherwood number are shown in figures and tables and analyzed in detail.

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