Open AccessEFFECT OF CHEMICAL REACTION ON MIXED CONVECTION FLOW OF AN EXOTHERMIC FLUID IN A VERTICAL POROUS CHANNEL
Author(s) -
M. S. M. Sani,
Abdulazeez Sheriff
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
european journal of physical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2788-8223
DOI - 10.47672/ejps.427
Subject(s) - combined forced and natural convection , nusselt number , sherwood number , exothermic reaction , mechanics , thermodynamics , dimensionless quantity , momentum (technical analysis) , materials science , porous medium , chemistry , forced convection , flow (mathematics) , natural convection , convection , porosity , physics , reynolds number , composite material , turbulence , finance , economics
In this paper, effect of chemical reaction on mixed convection flow of an exothermic fluid in a vertical porous channel is considered. The dimensionless ordinary differential equations were solved using differential transformation method (DTM) to obtain the expression of velocity, temperature and concentration from momentum, energy and mass equations. The effect of Skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number with various parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration are presented and discussed. The result indicated that the velocity, temperature and concentration increases with the increase in suction/injection and mixed convection parameters.