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Research ArticleRadiation Effects on Mass Transfer Flow through a HighlyPorous Medium with Heat Generation and Chemical Reaction
S Mohammed Ibrahim
Department of Mathematics Priyadarshini College of Engineering and Technology Nellore Andhra Pradesh 524004 India
Correspondence should be addressed to S Mohammed Ibrahim ibrahimsvugmailcom
Received 13 November 2012 Accepted 9 January 2013
Academic Editors O Kuksenok and W G Weng
Copyright copy 2013 S Mohammed Ibrahim This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons AttributionLicense which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properlycited
The present paper is concerned to analyze the influence of the unsteady free convection flow of a viscous incompressible fluidthrough a porous medium with high porosity bounded by a vertical infinite moving plate in the presence of thermal radiationheat generation and chemical reactionThe fluid is considered to be gray absorbing and emitting but nonscattering medium andRosseland approximation is considered to describe the radiative heat flux in the energy equation The dimensionless governingequations for this investigation are solved analytically using perturbation technique The effects of various governing parameterson the velocity temperature concentration skin-friction coefficient Nusselt number and Sherwood number are shown in figuresand tables and analyzed in detail
1 Introduction
Transport of momentum and energy in fluid-saturatedporous media with low porosities are commonly describedby Darcyrsquos model for conservation of momentum and byan energy equation based on the velocity field found fromthis model by Kaviany [1] In contrast to rocks soil sandand other media that do fall in this category certain porousmaterials such as foam metals and fibrous media usuallyhave high porosity Vajravelu [2] examined the steady flowof heat transfer in a porous medium with high porosityRaptis [3] studied mathematically the case of time varyingtwo-dimensional natural convection heat transfer of anincompressible electrically conducting viscous fluid througha high porousmediumbounded by an infinite vertical porousplate Hong et al [4] Chen and Lin [5] and Jaiswal andSoundalgekar [6] studied the natural convection in a porousmedium with high porosity Hiremath and Patil [7] studiedthe effect of free convection currents on the oscillatory flow ofthe polar fluid through a porous medium which is boundedby the vertical plane surface with constant temperature
Many processes in engineering areas occur in hightemperature and consequently the radiation plays a sig-nificant role Chandrasekhara and Nagaraju [8] examined
the composite heat transfer in a variable porosity mediumbounded by an infinite vertical flat plate in the presence ofradiation Yih [9] studied the radiation effects on naturalconvection over a cylinder embedded in porous mediaMohammadein and El-Amin [10] considered the thermalradiation effects on power law fluids over a horizontal plateembedded in a porous medium Raptis [11] studied the heattransfer in a porous medium with high porosity in the pres-ence of radiation Raptis and Perdikis [12] studied unsteadyflow through a porous medium with high porosity boundedby a vertical infinite plate in the presence of radiation
In the processes such as drying Evaporation at thesurface of water body Energy transfer in a wet coolingtower and the flow in a desert cooler heat and mass transferoccur simultaneously Possible applications of this type offlow can be found in many industries For example in thepower industry among the methods of generating electricpower is one in which electrical energy is extracted directlyfrom a moving conducting fluid The study of heat andmass transfer with chemical reaction is of great practicalimportance to engineers and scientists because of its frequentoccurrence in many branches of science and engineeringChambre and Young [13] presented a first order chemicalreaction in the neighborhood of a horizontal plate Das et al
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[14] investigated the effect of the first order homogeneouschemical reaction on the process of an unsteady flow pasta vertical plate with a constant heat and mass transferMuthucumarswamy and Ganesan [15] studied the effect ofchemical reaction and injection on the flow characteristics inan unsteady upward motion of an isothermal plate AnandRao and Shivaiah [16] noticed that the chemical reactioneffects on an unsteady MHD free convective flow past aninfinite vertical porous plate with constant suction and heatsource or generation
The study of heat generation or absorption effects inmoving fluids is important in view of several physical prob-lems such as fluids undergoing exothermic or endothermicchemical reactions Vajravelu and Hadjinicolaou [17] studiedthe heat transfer characteristics in the laminar boundarylayer of a viscous fluid over a stretching sheet with viscousdissipation or frictional heating and internal heat generationMolla et al [18] studied the problem of natural convectionflow along a vertical wavy surface with uniform surfacetemperature in the presence of heat generationabsorptionAlam et al [19] considered the problem of free convectiveheat and mass transfer flow past an inclined semi-infiniteheated surface of a steady viscous incompressible fluid in thepresence of magnetic field and heat generation Chamkha[20] investigated an unsteady convective heat and masstransfer flow past a semi-infinite porous moving plate withheat absorption Hady et al [21] studied the problem of freeconvection flow along a vertical wavy surface embedded ina saturated porous media in the presence of internal heatgeneration or absorption effect Ambethkar [22] investigatedthe numerical solutions of heat and mass transfer effectsof an unsteady MHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical plate with constant suction and heat source or sinkMohammed Ibrahim and Bhaskar Reddy [23] studied theradiation and mass transfer effects on MHD free convectionflow along a stretching surface with viscous dissipation andheat generation
In view of the above studies an unsteady free convectiveheat and mass transfer flow of a viscous incompressibleradiating fluid through a porous medium with high porositybounded by an infinite vertical moving plate is consideredin the presence of heat generation and chemical reaction Itis assumed that the plate is embedded in porous mediumand moves with constant velocity in the flow directionThe equations of continuity linear momentum energy anddiffusion which govern the flow field are solved by using aregular perturbation method The behavior of the velocitytemperature concentration skin friction Nusselt numberand Sherwood number has been discussed for variations inthe governing parameters
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An unsteady two-dimensional laminar free convective masstransfer flow of a viscous incompressible fluid through ahighly porous medium past an infinite vertical movingporous plate in the presence of thermal radiation heatgeneration and chemical reaction is considered The fluid
and the porous structure are assumed to be in local thermalequilibrium It is also assumed that there is radiation onlyfrom the fluidThe fluid is a gray emitting and absorbing butnon-scattering medium and the Rosseland approximation isused to describe the radiative heat flux in the energy equationA homogeneous first order chemical reaction between fluidand the species concentration is considered in which the rateof chemical reaction is directly proportional to the speciesconcentration All the fluid properties are assumed to beconstant except that the influence of the density variationwith temperature is considered only in the body force term(Boussinesqrsquos approximation) The 119909
1015840-axis is chosen alongthe plate in the direction opposite to the direction of gravityand the 1199101015840-axis is taken normal to it Since the flow field isof extreme size all the variables are functions of 1199101015840 and 119905
1015840
only Hence under the usual Boussinesqrsquos approximation theequations of mass linear momentum energy and diffusionare
continuity equation
1205971199071015840
1205971199101015840= 0 (1)
momentum equation
1205971199061015840
1205971199051015840+ 1199071015840 1205971199061015840
1205971199101015840= minus
1
120588
1205971199011015840
1205971199091015840+ 120584
12059721199061015840
12059711991010158402
+ 119892120573 (1198791015840minus 1198791015840
infin)
+ 119892120573lowast(1198621015840minus 1198621015840
infin) minus
120584
11987010158401205931199061015840
(2)
energy equation
120590
1205971198791015840
1205971199051015840+ 1205931199071015840 1205971198791015840
1205971199101015840
=
119896
120588119888119901
12059721198791015840
12059711991010158402
minus
120593
120588119888119901
120597119902119903
1205971199101015840+
1198760
120588119888119901
(1198791015840minus 1198791015840
infin)
(3)
diffusion equation
1205971198621015840
1205971199051015840+ 1199071015840 1205971198621015840
1205971199101015840= 119863
12059721198621015840
12059711991010158402
minus 1198701015840
119903(1198621015840minus 1198621015840
infin) (4)
where 1199091015840 1199101015840 and 1199051015840 are the dimensional distances along and
perpendicular to the plate and dimensional time respec-tively 1199061015840 and 119907
1015840 the components of dimensional velocitiesalong 119909
1015840 and 1199101015840 directions respectively 119862
1015840 and 1198791015840 the
dimensional concentration and temperature of the fluidrespectively 120588 the fluid density 120584 the kinematic viscosity 119888
119901
the specific heat at constant pressure120590 the heat capacity ratio119892 the acceleration due to gravity 120573 and 120573
lowast the volumetriccoefficient of thermal and concentration expansion 1198701015840 thepermeability of the porous medium 120593 the porosity 119863 themolecular diffusivity 1198701015840
119903the chemical reaction parameter
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and 119896 the fluid thermal conductivity The third and fourthterms on the right hand side of the momentum equation(2) denote the thermal and concentration buoyancy effectsrespectively and the fifth term represents the bulk matrixlinear resistance that is Darcy term Also the second termon the right hand side of the energy equation (3) representsthermal radiation The radiative heat flux term by using theRosseland approximation (Brewster [24]) is given by
119902119903=
minus412059011990412059711987910158404
31198701198901205971199101015840 (5)
where 120590119904is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant and 119870
119890is the
mean absorption coefficient It should be noted that by usingthe Rosseland approximation the present analysis is limitedto optically thick fluids If temperature differences withinthe flow are sufficiently small then (6) can be linearised byexpanding 119879
10158404 into the Taylor series about119879infin which after
neglecting higher order terms takes the form
11987910158404
asymp 41198793
infin119879 minus 3119879
4
infin (6)
It is assumed that the permeable plate moves withconstant velocity in the direction of fluid flow It is alsoassumed that the plate temperature and concentration areexponentially varying with time Under these assumptionsthe appropriate boundary conditions for the velocity temper-ature and concentration fields are
1199061015840= 1198801015840
119901 119879
1015840= 1198791015840
119908+ 120576 (119879
1015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin) 11989011989910158401199051015840
1198621015840= 1198621015840
119908+ 120576 (119879
1015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin) 11989011989910158401199051015840
at 1199101015840= 0
1199061015840997888rarr 119880
1015840
infin 1198791015840997888rarr 119879
1015840
infin 1198621015840997888rarr 119862
1015840
infinas 1199101015840997888rarr infin
(7)
where 1198801015840
119901is the wall dimensional velocity 1198621015840
119908and 119879
1015840
119908are
the wall dimensional concentration and temperature respec-tively 1198801015840
infin 1198621015840infin and 119879
1015840
infinare the free stream dimensional
velocity concentration and temperature respectively and 1198991015840is the constant
It is clear from (1) that the suction velocity normal to theplate is either a constant or a function of time Hence thesuction velocity normal to the plate is taken as
1199071015840= minus1198810 (8)
where 1198810is a scale of suction velocity which is a nonzero
positive constantThe negative sign indicates that the suctionis towards the plate
Outside the boundary layer (2) gives
1
120588
1198891199011015840
1198891199091015840= minus
120593120584
11987010158401198801015840
infin (9)
In order to write the governing equations and the bound-ary conditions in dimensionless form the following nondi-mensional quantities are introduced
119906 =
1199061015840
1198801015840
infin
119910 =
11988101199101015840
119907
119880119901=
1198801015840
119901
1198801015840
infin
119899 =
1198991015840119907
1198812
0
119905 =
11990510158401198812
0
119907
120582 =
120590
120593
120579 =
1198791015840minus 1198791015840
infin
1198791015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin
119862 =
1198621015840minus 1198621015840
infin
1198621015840
119908minus 1198621015840
infin
Gr =120584119892120573 (119879
1015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin)
1198801015840
infin1198812
0
Gc =120584119892120573lowast(1198621015840
119908minus 1198621015840
infin)
1198801015840
infin1198812
0
119870 =
11987010158401198812
0
1205931205842
Pr =120588119888119901120593120592
119896
119877 =
119870119890119896
41205931205901199041198793
infin
119876 =
1198760120584
1205931205881198881199011198812
0
Sc = 120584
119863
119870119903=
1198701015840
119903120584
1198812
0
(10)
In view of (5)ndash(10) (2)ndash(4) reduce to the following non-dimensional form
120597119906
120597119905
minus
120597119906
120597119910
=
1205972119906
1205971199102+ Gr120579 + Gc119862 +
1
119870
(1 minus 119906)
120582
120597120579
120597119905
minus
120597120579
120597119910
=
1
Γ
1205972120579
1205971199102+ 119876120579
120597119862
120597119905
minus
120597119862
120597119910
=
1
Sc1205972120601
1205971199102minus 119870119903119862
(11)
where Γ = (1 minus 4(3119877 + 4))Pr and Gr Gc Pr 119877 Sc119876119870 and119870119903are the thermal Grashof number solutal Grashof number
Prandtl number radiation parameter Schmidt number heatgeneration parameter permeability of the porous mediumand chemical reaction parameter respectively
The corresponding dimensionless boundary conditionsare
119906 = 119880119901
120579 = 1 + 120576119890119899119905
119862 = 1 + 120576119890119899119905 at 119910 = 0
119906 997888rarr 1 120579 997888rarr 0 119862 997888rarr 0 as 119910 997888rarr infin
(12)
3 Solution of the Problem
Equations (11) are coupled nonlinear partial differentialequations and these cannot be solved in closed form How-ever these equations can be reduced to a set of ordinarydifferential equations which can be solved analytically This
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can be done by representing the velocity temperature andconcentration of the fluid in the neighborhood of the plate as
119906 (119910 119905) = 1199060(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051199061(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
120579 (119910 119905) = 1205790(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051205791(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
119862 (119910 119905) = 1198620(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051198621(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
(13)
Substituting (13) in (11) equating the harmonic andnonharmonic terms and neglecting the higher order termsof 0(120576)2 we obtain
11990610158401015840
0+ 1199061015840
0minus
1
119870
1199060= minus
1
119870
minus Gr1205790minus Gc119862
0
11990610158401015840
1+ 1199061015840
1minus (119899 +
1
119870
)1199061= minusGr120579
1minus Gc119862
1
12057910158401015840
0+ Γ1205791015840
0+ Γ119876120579
0= 0
12057910158401015840
1+ Γ1205791015840
1minus 119899120582Γ120579
1+ Γ119876120579
1= 0
11986210158401015840
0+ Sc1198621015840
0minus Sc119870
1199031198620= 0
11986210158401015840
1+ Sc1198621015840
1minus Sc (119870
119903+ 119899)119862
1= 0
(14)
where the prime denotes ordinary differentiationwith respectto 119910
The corresponding boundary conditions can be writtenas
1199060= 119880119901 1199061= 0 120579
0= 1
1205791= 1 119862
0= 1 119862
1= 1 at 119910 = 0
1199060997888rarr 1 119906
1997888rarr 0 120579
0997888rarr 0
1205791997888rarr 0 119862
0997888rarr 0 119862
1997888rarr 0 as 119910 997888rarr infin
(15)
Solving (14) subject to boundary conditions (15) weobtain the velocity temperature and concentration distribu-tions in the boundary layer as
119906 (119910 119905) = 1 + 1198604119890minus1198981119910+ 1198605119890minus1198984119910+ 1198606119890minus1198986119910
+ 120576119890119899119905(1198603119890minus1198985119910+ 1198601119890minus1198982119910+ 1198602119890minus1198983119910)
(16)
120579 (119910 119905) = 119890minus1198981119910+ 120576119890119899119905(119890minus1198982119910) (17)
119862 (119910 119905) = 119890minus1198984119910+ 120576119890119899119905(119890minus1198983119910) (18)
where the expressions for the constants are given in theappendix
The skin-friction Nusselt number and Sherwood num-ber are important physical parameters for this type of bound-ary layer flow These parameters can be defined and deter-mined as follows
Knowing the velocity field the skin-friction at the platecan be obtained which in non-dimensional form is given by
119862119891
=
1205911015840
119908
12058811988001198810
= (
120597119906
120597119910
)
119910=0
= (
1205971199060
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971199061
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus [11986041198981+ 11986051198984+ 11986061198986
+120576119890119899119905(11986031198985+ 11986011198982+ 11986021198983)]
(19)
Knowing the temperature field the rate of heat transfercoefficient can be obtained which in the non-dimensionalform in terms of the Nusselt number is given by
Nu = minus119909
(1205971198791205971199101015840)1199101015840=0
(1198791015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin)
997904rArr NuReminus1119909
= minus(
120597120579
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus(
1205971205790
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971205791
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus [minus1198981+ 120576119890119899119905(minus1198982)]
(20)
Knowing the concentration field the rate of mass transfercoefficient can be obtained which in the non-dimensionalform in terms of the Sherwood number is given by
Sh = minus119909
(1205971198621205971199101015840)1199101015840=0
(1198621015840
119908minus 1198621015840
infin)
997904rArr ShReminus1119909
= minus(
120597119862
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus[
1205971198620
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971198621
120597119910
]
119910=0
= minus [minus1198984+ 120576119890119899119905(minus1198983)]
(21)
where Re119909= 1198810119909120584 is the local Reynolds number
4 Results and Discussion
In the preceding section the problem of an unsteady freeconvective flow of a viscous incompressible thermally radi-ating and chemically reacting fluid past a semi-infinite platein the presence of heat generation was formulated and solvedby means of a perturbation method The expressions for thevelocity temperature and concentration were obtained Toillustrate the behavior of these physical quantities numericalvalues of these quantities were computed with respect tothe variations in the governing parameters namely thethermal Grashof number Gr the solutal Grashof numberGc Prandtl number Pr Schmidt number Sc the radiationparameter 119877 the permeability of the porous medium 119870the heat generation parameter 119876 and the chemical reaction
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5
4
3
2
1
00 2 4 6 8 10
119906
119910
Gr = 1 2 3 4
Figure 1 Velocity profiles for different values of Gr
parameter119870119903 In the present study the following default
parametric values are adopted Gr = 20 Gc = 20 119870 = 50120582 = 14 Sc = 02 119877 = 50 119870
119903= 20 119876 = 01 Pr = 071
119880119901= 04 119860 = 05 119905 = 10 119899 = 01 and 120576 = 001 All the
graphs and tables therefore correspond to these values unlessspecifically indicated on the appropriate graph
Figure 1 presents the typical velocity profiles in theboundary layer for various values of the thermal Grashofnumber Gr The thermal Grashof number Gr signifies therelative effect of the thermal buoyancy force to the viscoushydrodynamic force in the boundary layer It is observed thatan increase in Gr leads to a rise in the values of velocitydue to enhancement of thermal buoyancy force Here thepositive values of Gr correspond to cooling of the surfaceIt is observed that velocity increases rapidly near the wall ofthe porous plate as Gr increases and then decays to the freestream velocity
For the case of different values of the solutal Grahofnumber Gc the velocity profiles in the boundary layer areshown in Figure 2 The solutal Grashof number Gc definesthe ratio of the species buoyancy force to the viscous hydro-dynamic force As expected as Gc increases the fluid velocityincreases and the peak value is more distinctive maximumvalue in the vicinity of the plate and then decreases properlyto approach the free stream value Figure 3 shows the velocityprofiles for different values of the permeability of the porousmedium 119870 Clearly as 119870 increases the velocity tends toincrease
For different values of the radiation parameter 119877 thevelocity and temperature profiles are plotted in Figures 4(a)and 4(b) The radiation parameter 119877 defines the relativecontribution of conduction heat transfer to thermal radiationtransfer It is obvious that an increase in the radiation param-eter 119877 results in a decrease in the velocity and temperaturewithin the boundary layer as well as decreased thickness ofthe velocity and temperature boundary layers
Figures 5(a) and 5(b) illustrate the velocity and temper-ature profiles for different values of Prandtl number Pr Thenumerical results show that the effect of increasing valuesof Prandtl number results in a decreasing velocity From
Gc = 1 2 3 4
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10119910
Figure 2 Velocity profiles for different values of Gc
119870 = 2 5 7 10
4
3
2
1
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
Figure 3 Velocity profiles for different values of 119870
Figure 5(b) as expected the numerical results show thatan increase in the Prandtl number results in a decrease ofthe thermal boundary layer and in general lower averagetemperature with in the boundary layer The reason is thatsmaller values of Pr are equivalent to increase in the thermalconductivity of the fluid and therefore heat is able to diffuseaway from the heated surface more rapidly for higher valuesof Pr Hence in the case of smaller Prandtl numbers thethermal boundary layer is thicker and the rate of heat transferis reduced
Figures 6(a) and 6(b) display the effects of the Schmidtnumber Sc on velocity and concentration respectively TheSchmidt number Sc embodies the ratio of the momentum tothemass diffusivityThe Schmidt number therefore quantifiesthe relative effectiveness ofmomentumandmass transport bydiffusion in the hydrodynamic (velocity) and concentration(species) boundary layers As the Schmidt number increasesthe concentration decreases This causes the concentrationbuoyancy effects to decrease yielding a reduction in the fluidvelocity The reductions in the velocity and concentrationprofiles are accompanied by simultaneous reductions in the
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0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10
4
3
2
1
0
119906
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
(b)
Figure 4 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of119877 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119877
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
35
3
2
25
1
15
0
05
119906
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(b)
Figure 5 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Pr (b) Temperature profiles for different values of Pr
velocity and concentration boundary layers These behaviorsare evident from Figures 6(a) and 6(b)
The influences of chemical reaction parameter 119870119903on the
velocity and concentration across the boundary layer arepresented in Figures 7(a) and 7(b) It is seen that the velocityas well as concentration across the boundary layer decreaseswith an increase in the chemical reaction parameter119870
119903
Figures 8(a) and 8(b) depict the effect of heat generationparameter 119876 on the velocity and temperature It is noticedthat the velocity as well as temperature across the boundarylayer increases with an increase in the heat generationparameter 119876
Tables 1ndash7 show the effects of the thermal Grashofnumber Gr solutal Grashof number Gc radiation parameter119877 Prandtl number Pr Schmidt number Sc chemical reactionparameter 119870
119903 and heat generation parameter 119876 on the
skin friction coefficient 119862119891 Nusselt number Nu and the
Sherwood number Sh FromTables 1 and 2 it is observed thatas Gr or Gc increases the skin-friction coefficient increasesFrom Table 3 it can be seen that as the radiation parameter
Table 1 Effects of Gr on skin-friction 119862119891
Gr 119862119891
10 4596620 6273530 7950340 96272
increases the skin-friction decreases and the Nusselt numberincreases From Table 4 it is found that an increase in Prleads to a decrease in the skin-friction and an increase inthe Nusselt number From Table 5 it is observed that as theSchmidt number increases the skin-friction decreases andthe Sherwood number increases From Table 6 it is seenthat as the chemical reaction parameter 119870
119903increases the
skin-friction decreases and the Sherwood number increasesFrom Table 7 it is observed that as the heat generationparameter 119876increases the skin-friction increases and theNusselt number decreases
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3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(a)
119862
1
08
06
04
02
0
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(b)
Figure 6 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Sc (b) Concentration profiles for different values of Sc
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
0
119862
0 1 2 3 4 5 6119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(b)
Figure 7 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119870119903 (b) Concentration profiles for different values of119870
119903
Table 2 Effects of Gc on skin-friction 119862119891
Gc 119862119891
10 5164920 6273530 7382140 84907
Table 3 Effects of R on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119877 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
30 67751 0357750 62735 0436970 60693 04763100 59186 05089
Table 4 Effects of Pr on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
Pr 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
071 62735 0436908 58946 0514410 53134 06811125 48515 08853
Table 5 Effects of Sc on skin-friction 119862119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
Sc 119862119891
ShReminus1119909
02 62735 0748704 56259 1129106 53141 1451909 50489 18861
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0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
00 2 4 6 8 10
119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015120579
(b)
Figure 8 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119876 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119876
Table 6 Effects of 119870119903on skin-friction 119862
119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
119870119903
119862119891
ShReminus1119909
20 62735 0748750 56402 1117370 54421 13018100 52532 15346
Table 7 Effects of Q on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119876 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
001 57173 05577005 59040 0512101 62735 04369015 72641 02863
5 Conclusions
The problem of unsteady two-dimensional laminar freeconvective mass transfer flow of a viscous incompressiblefluid through a highly porous medium past an infinitevertical moving porous plate in the thermal radiation heatgeneration and chemical reaction has been studied Thenondimensional governing equations were solved by pertur-bation technique Numerical results are presented to illustratethe details of the flow and heat transfer characteristics andtheir dependence on the material parameters We observethat the velocity increases as the thermal Grashof numberGr solutal Grashof number Gc permeability of the porousmedium 119870 or heat generation parameter 119876 increases whileit decreases as the Prndtl number Pr radiation parameterR Schmidt number Sc or the chemical reaction parameter119870119903 It is observed that the temperature decreases as the
Prandtl number Pr or radiation parameter 119877 increases whileit increases as the heat generation parameter119876 increasesThe
concentration decreases as the Schmidt number Sc or thechemical reaction parameter119870
119903increases
Appendix
One has
1198981=
Γ + radicΓ2minus 4Γ119876
2
1198982=
Γ + radicΓ2+ 4Γ (119899120582 minus 119876)
2
1198983=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4Sc (119899 + 119870119903)
2
1198984=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4119870119903Sc
2
1198985=
1 + radic1 + 4 (119899 + (1119870))
2
1198986=
1 + radic1 + (4119870)
2
1198601=
minusGr1198982
2minus 1198982minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198602=
minusGc1198982
3minus 1198983minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198603= minus (119860
1+ 1198602)
1198604=
minusGr1198982
1minus 1198981minus (1119870)
1198605=
minusGc1198982
4minus 1198984minus (1119870)
1198606= 119880119901minus (1 + 119860
4+ 1198605)
(A1)
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[14] investigated the effect of the first order homogeneouschemical reaction on the process of an unsteady flow pasta vertical plate with a constant heat and mass transferMuthucumarswamy and Ganesan [15] studied the effect ofchemical reaction and injection on the flow characteristics inan unsteady upward motion of an isothermal plate AnandRao and Shivaiah [16] noticed that the chemical reactioneffects on an unsteady MHD free convective flow past aninfinite vertical porous plate with constant suction and heatsource or generation
The study of heat generation or absorption effects inmoving fluids is important in view of several physical prob-lems such as fluids undergoing exothermic or endothermicchemical reactions Vajravelu and Hadjinicolaou [17] studiedthe heat transfer characteristics in the laminar boundarylayer of a viscous fluid over a stretching sheet with viscousdissipation or frictional heating and internal heat generationMolla et al [18] studied the problem of natural convectionflow along a vertical wavy surface with uniform surfacetemperature in the presence of heat generationabsorptionAlam et al [19] considered the problem of free convectiveheat and mass transfer flow past an inclined semi-infiniteheated surface of a steady viscous incompressible fluid in thepresence of magnetic field and heat generation Chamkha[20] investigated an unsteady convective heat and masstransfer flow past a semi-infinite porous moving plate withheat absorption Hady et al [21] studied the problem of freeconvection flow along a vertical wavy surface embedded ina saturated porous media in the presence of internal heatgeneration or absorption effect Ambethkar [22] investigatedthe numerical solutions of heat and mass transfer effectsof an unsteady MHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical plate with constant suction and heat source or sinkMohammed Ibrahim and Bhaskar Reddy [23] studied theradiation and mass transfer effects on MHD free convectionflow along a stretching surface with viscous dissipation andheat generation
In view of the above studies an unsteady free convectiveheat and mass transfer flow of a viscous incompressibleradiating fluid through a porous medium with high porositybounded by an infinite vertical moving plate is consideredin the presence of heat generation and chemical reaction Itis assumed that the plate is embedded in porous mediumand moves with constant velocity in the flow directionThe equations of continuity linear momentum energy anddiffusion which govern the flow field are solved by using aregular perturbation method The behavior of the velocitytemperature concentration skin friction Nusselt numberand Sherwood number has been discussed for variations inthe governing parameters
2 Mathematical Analysis
An unsteady two-dimensional laminar free convective masstransfer flow of a viscous incompressible fluid through ahighly porous medium past an infinite vertical movingporous plate in the presence of thermal radiation heatgeneration and chemical reaction is considered The fluid
and the porous structure are assumed to be in local thermalequilibrium It is also assumed that there is radiation onlyfrom the fluidThe fluid is a gray emitting and absorbing butnon-scattering medium and the Rosseland approximation isused to describe the radiative heat flux in the energy equationA homogeneous first order chemical reaction between fluidand the species concentration is considered in which the rateof chemical reaction is directly proportional to the speciesconcentration All the fluid properties are assumed to beconstant except that the influence of the density variationwith temperature is considered only in the body force term(Boussinesqrsquos approximation) The 119909
1015840-axis is chosen alongthe plate in the direction opposite to the direction of gravityand the 1199101015840-axis is taken normal to it Since the flow field isof extreme size all the variables are functions of 1199101015840 and 119905
1015840
only Hence under the usual Boussinesqrsquos approximation theequations of mass linear momentum energy and diffusionare
continuity equation
1205971199071015840
1205971199101015840= 0 (1)
momentum equation
1205971199061015840
1205971199051015840+ 1199071015840 1205971199061015840
1205971199101015840= minus
1
120588
1205971199011015840
1205971199091015840+ 120584
12059721199061015840
12059711991010158402
+ 119892120573 (1198791015840minus 1198791015840
infin)
+ 119892120573lowast(1198621015840minus 1198621015840
infin) minus
120584
11987010158401205931199061015840
(2)
energy equation
120590
1205971198791015840
1205971199051015840+ 1205931199071015840 1205971198791015840
1205971199101015840
=
119896
120588119888119901
12059721198791015840
12059711991010158402
minus
120593
120588119888119901
120597119902119903
1205971199101015840+
1198760
120588119888119901
(1198791015840minus 1198791015840
infin)
(3)
diffusion equation
1205971198621015840
1205971199051015840+ 1199071015840 1205971198621015840
1205971199101015840= 119863
12059721198621015840
12059711991010158402
minus 1198701015840
119903(1198621015840minus 1198621015840
infin) (4)
where 1199091015840 1199101015840 and 1199051015840 are the dimensional distances along and
perpendicular to the plate and dimensional time respec-tively 1199061015840 and 119907
1015840 the components of dimensional velocitiesalong 119909
1015840 and 1199101015840 directions respectively 119862
1015840 and 1198791015840 the
dimensional concentration and temperature of the fluidrespectively 120588 the fluid density 120584 the kinematic viscosity 119888
119901
the specific heat at constant pressure120590 the heat capacity ratio119892 the acceleration due to gravity 120573 and 120573
lowast the volumetriccoefficient of thermal and concentration expansion 1198701015840 thepermeability of the porous medium 120593 the porosity 119863 themolecular diffusivity 1198701015840
119903the chemical reaction parameter
ISRN Computational Mathematics 3
and 119896 the fluid thermal conductivity The third and fourthterms on the right hand side of the momentum equation(2) denote the thermal and concentration buoyancy effectsrespectively and the fifth term represents the bulk matrixlinear resistance that is Darcy term Also the second termon the right hand side of the energy equation (3) representsthermal radiation The radiative heat flux term by using theRosseland approximation (Brewster [24]) is given by
119902119903=
minus412059011990412059711987910158404
31198701198901205971199101015840 (5)
where 120590119904is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant and 119870
119890is the
mean absorption coefficient It should be noted that by usingthe Rosseland approximation the present analysis is limitedto optically thick fluids If temperature differences withinthe flow are sufficiently small then (6) can be linearised byexpanding 119879
10158404 into the Taylor series about119879infin which after
neglecting higher order terms takes the form
11987910158404
asymp 41198793
infin119879 minus 3119879
4
infin (6)
It is assumed that the permeable plate moves withconstant velocity in the direction of fluid flow It is alsoassumed that the plate temperature and concentration areexponentially varying with time Under these assumptionsthe appropriate boundary conditions for the velocity temper-ature and concentration fields are
1199061015840= 1198801015840
119901 119879
1015840= 1198791015840
119908+ 120576 (119879
1015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin) 11989011989910158401199051015840
1198621015840= 1198621015840
119908+ 120576 (119879
1015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin) 11989011989910158401199051015840
at 1199101015840= 0
1199061015840997888rarr 119880
1015840
infin 1198791015840997888rarr 119879
1015840
infin 1198621015840997888rarr 119862
1015840
infinas 1199101015840997888rarr infin
(7)
where 1198801015840
119901is the wall dimensional velocity 1198621015840
119908and 119879
1015840
119908are
the wall dimensional concentration and temperature respec-tively 1198801015840
infin 1198621015840infin and 119879
1015840
infinare the free stream dimensional
velocity concentration and temperature respectively and 1198991015840is the constant
It is clear from (1) that the suction velocity normal to theplate is either a constant or a function of time Hence thesuction velocity normal to the plate is taken as
1199071015840= minus1198810 (8)
where 1198810is a scale of suction velocity which is a nonzero
positive constantThe negative sign indicates that the suctionis towards the plate
Outside the boundary layer (2) gives
1
120588
1198891199011015840
1198891199091015840= minus
120593120584
11987010158401198801015840
infin (9)
In order to write the governing equations and the bound-ary conditions in dimensionless form the following nondi-mensional quantities are introduced
119906 =
1199061015840
1198801015840
infin
119910 =
11988101199101015840
119907
119880119901=
1198801015840
119901
1198801015840
infin
119899 =
1198991015840119907
1198812
0
119905 =
11990510158401198812
0
119907
120582 =
120590
120593
120579 =
1198791015840minus 1198791015840
infin
1198791015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin
119862 =
1198621015840minus 1198621015840
infin
1198621015840
119908minus 1198621015840
infin
Gr =120584119892120573 (119879
1015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin)
1198801015840
infin1198812
0
Gc =120584119892120573lowast(1198621015840
119908minus 1198621015840
infin)
1198801015840
infin1198812
0
119870 =
11987010158401198812
0
1205931205842
Pr =120588119888119901120593120592
119896
119877 =
119870119890119896
41205931205901199041198793
infin
119876 =
1198760120584
1205931205881198881199011198812
0
Sc = 120584
119863
119870119903=
1198701015840
119903120584
1198812
0
(10)
In view of (5)ndash(10) (2)ndash(4) reduce to the following non-dimensional form
120597119906
120597119905
minus
120597119906
120597119910
=
1205972119906
1205971199102+ Gr120579 + Gc119862 +
1
119870
(1 minus 119906)
120582
120597120579
120597119905
minus
120597120579
120597119910
=
1
Γ
1205972120579
1205971199102+ 119876120579
120597119862
120597119905
minus
120597119862
120597119910
=
1
Sc1205972120601
1205971199102minus 119870119903119862
(11)
where Γ = (1 minus 4(3119877 + 4))Pr and Gr Gc Pr 119877 Sc119876119870 and119870119903are the thermal Grashof number solutal Grashof number
Prandtl number radiation parameter Schmidt number heatgeneration parameter permeability of the porous mediumand chemical reaction parameter respectively
The corresponding dimensionless boundary conditionsare
119906 = 119880119901
120579 = 1 + 120576119890119899119905
119862 = 1 + 120576119890119899119905 at 119910 = 0
119906 997888rarr 1 120579 997888rarr 0 119862 997888rarr 0 as 119910 997888rarr infin
(12)
3 Solution of the Problem
Equations (11) are coupled nonlinear partial differentialequations and these cannot be solved in closed form How-ever these equations can be reduced to a set of ordinarydifferential equations which can be solved analytically This
4 ISRN Computational Mathematics
can be done by representing the velocity temperature andconcentration of the fluid in the neighborhood of the plate as
119906 (119910 119905) = 1199060(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051199061(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
120579 (119910 119905) = 1205790(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051205791(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
119862 (119910 119905) = 1198620(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051198621(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
(13)
Substituting (13) in (11) equating the harmonic andnonharmonic terms and neglecting the higher order termsof 0(120576)2 we obtain
11990610158401015840
0+ 1199061015840
0minus
1
119870
1199060= minus
1
119870
minus Gr1205790minus Gc119862
0
11990610158401015840
1+ 1199061015840
1minus (119899 +
1
119870
)1199061= minusGr120579
1minus Gc119862
1
12057910158401015840
0+ Γ1205791015840
0+ Γ119876120579
0= 0
12057910158401015840
1+ Γ1205791015840
1minus 119899120582Γ120579
1+ Γ119876120579
1= 0
11986210158401015840
0+ Sc1198621015840
0minus Sc119870
1199031198620= 0
11986210158401015840
1+ Sc1198621015840
1minus Sc (119870
119903+ 119899)119862
1= 0
(14)
where the prime denotes ordinary differentiationwith respectto 119910
The corresponding boundary conditions can be writtenas
1199060= 119880119901 1199061= 0 120579
0= 1
1205791= 1 119862
0= 1 119862
1= 1 at 119910 = 0
1199060997888rarr 1 119906
1997888rarr 0 120579
0997888rarr 0
1205791997888rarr 0 119862
0997888rarr 0 119862
1997888rarr 0 as 119910 997888rarr infin
(15)
Solving (14) subject to boundary conditions (15) weobtain the velocity temperature and concentration distribu-tions in the boundary layer as
119906 (119910 119905) = 1 + 1198604119890minus1198981119910+ 1198605119890minus1198984119910+ 1198606119890minus1198986119910
+ 120576119890119899119905(1198603119890minus1198985119910+ 1198601119890minus1198982119910+ 1198602119890minus1198983119910)
(16)
120579 (119910 119905) = 119890minus1198981119910+ 120576119890119899119905(119890minus1198982119910) (17)
119862 (119910 119905) = 119890minus1198984119910+ 120576119890119899119905(119890minus1198983119910) (18)
where the expressions for the constants are given in theappendix
The skin-friction Nusselt number and Sherwood num-ber are important physical parameters for this type of bound-ary layer flow These parameters can be defined and deter-mined as follows
Knowing the velocity field the skin-friction at the platecan be obtained which in non-dimensional form is given by
119862119891
=
1205911015840
119908
12058811988001198810
= (
120597119906
120597119910
)
119910=0
= (
1205971199060
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971199061
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus [11986041198981+ 11986051198984+ 11986061198986
+120576119890119899119905(11986031198985+ 11986011198982+ 11986021198983)]
(19)
Knowing the temperature field the rate of heat transfercoefficient can be obtained which in the non-dimensionalform in terms of the Nusselt number is given by
Nu = minus119909
(1205971198791205971199101015840)1199101015840=0
(1198791015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin)
997904rArr NuReminus1119909
= minus(
120597120579
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus(
1205971205790
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971205791
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus [minus1198981+ 120576119890119899119905(minus1198982)]
(20)
Knowing the concentration field the rate of mass transfercoefficient can be obtained which in the non-dimensionalform in terms of the Sherwood number is given by
Sh = minus119909
(1205971198621205971199101015840)1199101015840=0
(1198621015840
119908minus 1198621015840
infin)
997904rArr ShReminus1119909
= minus(
120597119862
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus[
1205971198620
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971198621
120597119910
]
119910=0
= minus [minus1198984+ 120576119890119899119905(minus1198983)]
(21)
where Re119909= 1198810119909120584 is the local Reynolds number
4 Results and Discussion
In the preceding section the problem of an unsteady freeconvective flow of a viscous incompressible thermally radi-ating and chemically reacting fluid past a semi-infinite platein the presence of heat generation was formulated and solvedby means of a perturbation method The expressions for thevelocity temperature and concentration were obtained Toillustrate the behavior of these physical quantities numericalvalues of these quantities were computed with respect tothe variations in the governing parameters namely thethermal Grashof number Gr the solutal Grashof numberGc Prandtl number Pr Schmidt number Sc the radiationparameter 119877 the permeability of the porous medium 119870the heat generation parameter 119876 and the chemical reaction
ISRN Computational Mathematics 5
5
4
3
2
1
00 2 4 6 8 10
119906
119910
Gr = 1 2 3 4
Figure 1 Velocity profiles for different values of Gr
parameter119870119903 In the present study the following default
parametric values are adopted Gr = 20 Gc = 20 119870 = 50120582 = 14 Sc = 02 119877 = 50 119870
119903= 20 119876 = 01 Pr = 071
119880119901= 04 119860 = 05 119905 = 10 119899 = 01 and 120576 = 001 All the
graphs and tables therefore correspond to these values unlessspecifically indicated on the appropriate graph
Figure 1 presents the typical velocity profiles in theboundary layer for various values of the thermal Grashofnumber Gr The thermal Grashof number Gr signifies therelative effect of the thermal buoyancy force to the viscoushydrodynamic force in the boundary layer It is observed thatan increase in Gr leads to a rise in the values of velocitydue to enhancement of thermal buoyancy force Here thepositive values of Gr correspond to cooling of the surfaceIt is observed that velocity increases rapidly near the wall ofthe porous plate as Gr increases and then decays to the freestream velocity
For the case of different values of the solutal Grahofnumber Gc the velocity profiles in the boundary layer areshown in Figure 2 The solutal Grashof number Gc definesthe ratio of the species buoyancy force to the viscous hydro-dynamic force As expected as Gc increases the fluid velocityincreases and the peak value is more distinctive maximumvalue in the vicinity of the plate and then decreases properlyto approach the free stream value Figure 3 shows the velocityprofiles for different values of the permeability of the porousmedium 119870 Clearly as 119870 increases the velocity tends toincrease
For different values of the radiation parameter 119877 thevelocity and temperature profiles are plotted in Figures 4(a)and 4(b) The radiation parameter 119877 defines the relativecontribution of conduction heat transfer to thermal radiationtransfer It is obvious that an increase in the radiation param-eter 119877 results in a decrease in the velocity and temperaturewithin the boundary layer as well as decreased thickness ofthe velocity and temperature boundary layers
Figures 5(a) and 5(b) illustrate the velocity and temper-ature profiles for different values of Prandtl number Pr Thenumerical results show that the effect of increasing valuesof Prandtl number results in a decreasing velocity From
Gc = 1 2 3 4
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10119910
Figure 2 Velocity profiles for different values of Gc
119870 = 2 5 7 10
4
3
2
1
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
Figure 3 Velocity profiles for different values of 119870
Figure 5(b) as expected the numerical results show thatan increase in the Prandtl number results in a decrease ofthe thermal boundary layer and in general lower averagetemperature with in the boundary layer The reason is thatsmaller values of Pr are equivalent to increase in the thermalconductivity of the fluid and therefore heat is able to diffuseaway from the heated surface more rapidly for higher valuesof Pr Hence in the case of smaller Prandtl numbers thethermal boundary layer is thicker and the rate of heat transferis reduced
Figures 6(a) and 6(b) display the effects of the Schmidtnumber Sc on velocity and concentration respectively TheSchmidt number Sc embodies the ratio of the momentum tothemass diffusivityThe Schmidt number therefore quantifiesthe relative effectiveness ofmomentumandmass transport bydiffusion in the hydrodynamic (velocity) and concentration(species) boundary layers As the Schmidt number increasesthe concentration decreases This causes the concentrationbuoyancy effects to decrease yielding a reduction in the fluidvelocity The reductions in the velocity and concentrationprofiles are accompanied by simultaneous reductions in the
6 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10
4
3
2
1
0
119906
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
(b)
Figure 4 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of119877 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119877
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
35
3
2
25
1
15
0
05
119906
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(b)
Figure 5 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Pr (b) Temperature profiles for different values of Pr
velocity and concentration boundary layers These behaviorsare evident from Figures 6(a) and 6(b)
The influences of chemical reaction parameter 119870119903on the
velocity and concentration across the boundary layer arepresented in Figures 7(a) and 7(b) It is seen that the velocityas well as concentration across the boundary layer decreaseswith an increase in the chemical reaction parameter119870
119903
Figures 8(a) and 8(b) depict the effect of heat generationparameter 119876 on the velocity and temperature It is noticedthat the velocity as well as temperature across the boundarylayer increases with an increase in the heat generationparameter 119876
Tables 1ndash7 show the effects of the thermal Grashofnumber Gr solutal Grashof number Gc radiation parameter119877 Prandtl number Pr Schmidt number Sc chemical reactionparameter 119870
119903 and heat generation parameter 119876 on the
skin friction coefficient 119862119891 Nusselt number Nu and the
Sherwood number Sh FromTables 1 and 2 it is observed thatas Gr or Gc increases the skin-friction coefficient increasesFrom Table 3 it can be seen that as the radiation parameter
Table 1 Effects of Gr on skin-friction 119862119891
Gr 119862119891
10 4596620 6273530 7950340 96272
increases the skin-friction decreases and the Nusselt numberincreases From Table 4 it is found that an increase in Prleads to a decrease in the skin-friction and an increase inthe Nusselt number From Table 5 it is observed that as theSchmidt number increases the skin-friction decreases andthe Sherwood number increases From Table 6 it is seenthat as the chemical reaction parameter 119870
119903increases the
skin-friction decreases and the Sherwood number increasesFrom Table 7 it is observed that as the heat generationparameter 119876increases the skin-friction increases and theNusselt number decreases
ISRN Computational Mathematics 7
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(a)
119862
1
08
06
04
02
0
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(b)
Figure 6 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Sc (b) Concentration profiles for different values of Sc
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
0
119862
0 1 2 3 4 5 6119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(b)
Figure 7 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119870119903 (b) Concentration profiles for different values of119870
119903
Table 2 Effects of Gc on skin-friction 119862119891
Gc 119862119891
10 5164920 6273530 7382140 84907
Table 3 Effects of R on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119877 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
30 67751 0357750 62735 0436970 60693 04763100 59186 05089
Table 4 Effects of Pr on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
Pr 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
071 62735 0436908 58946 0514410 53134 06811125 48515 08853
Table 5 Effects of Sc on skin-friction 119862119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
Sc 119862119891
ShReminus1119909
02 62735 0748704 56259 1129106 53141 1451909 50489 18861
8 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
00 2 4 6 8 10
119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015120579
(b)
Figure 8 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119876 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119876
Table 6 Effects of 119870119903on skin-friction 119862
119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
119870119903
119862119891
ShReminus1119909
20 62735 0748750 56402 1117370 54421 13018100 52532 15346
Table 7 Effects of Q on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119876 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
001 57173 05577005 59040 0512101 62735 04369015 72641 02863
5 Conclusions
The problem of unsteady two-dimensional laminar freeconvective mass transfer flow of a viscous incompressiblefluid through a highly porous medium past an infinitevertical moving porous plate in the thermal radiation heatgeneration and chemical reaction has been studied Thenondimensional governing equations were solved by pertur-bation technique Numerical results are presented to illustratethe details of the flow and heat transfer characteristics andtheir dependence on the material parameters We observethat the velocity increases as the thermal Grashof numberGr solutal Grashof number Gc permeability of the porousmedium 119870 or heat generation parameter 119876 increases whileit decreases as the Prndtl number Pr radiation parameterR Schmidt number Sc or the chemical reaction parameter119870119903 It is observed that the temperature decreases as the
Prandtl number Pr or radiation parameter 119877 increases whileit increases as the heat generation parameter119876 increasesThe
concentration decreases as the Schmidt number Sc or thechemical reaction parameter119870
119903increases
Appendix
One has
1198981=
Γ + radicΓ2minus 4Γ119876
2
1198982=
Γ + radicΓ2+ 4Γ (119899120582 minus 119876)
2
1198983=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4Sc (119899 + 119870119903)
2
1198984=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4119870119903Sc
2
1198985=
1 + radic1 + 4 (119899 + (1119870))
2
1198986=
1 + radic1 + (4119870)
2
1198601=
minusGr1198982
2minus 1198982minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198602=
minusGc1198982
3minus 1198983minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198603= minus (119860
1+ 1198602)
1198604=
minusGr1198982
1minus 1198981minus (1119870)
1198605=
minusGc1198982
4minus 1198984minus (1119870)
1198606= 119880119901minus (1 + 119860
4+ 1198605)
(A1)
ISRN Computational Mathematics 9
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and 119896 the fluid thermal conductivity The third and fourthterms on the right hand side of the momentum equation(2) denote the thermal and concentration buoyancy effectsrespectively and the fifth term represents the bulk matrixlinear resistance that is Darcy term Also the second termon the right hand side of the energy equation (3) representsthermal radiation The radiative heat flux term by using theRosseland approximation (Brewster [24]) is given by
119902119903=
minus412059011990412059711987910158404
31198701198901205971199101015840 (5)
where 120590119904is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant and 119870
119890is the
mean absorption coefficient It should be noted that by usingthe Rosseland approximation the present analysis is limitedto optically thick fluids If temperature differences withinthe flow are sufficiently small then (6) can be linearised byexpanding 119879
10158404 into the Taylor series about119879infin which after
neglecting higher order terms takes the form
11987910158404
asymp 41198793
infin119879 minus 3119879
4
infin (6)
It is assumed that the permeable plate moves withconstant velocity in the direction of fluid flow It is alsoassumed that the plate temperature and concentration areexponentially varying with time Under these assumptionsthe appropriate boundary conditions for the velocity temper-ature and concentration fields are
1199061015840= 1198801015840
119901 119879
1015840= 1198791015840
119908+ 120576 (119879
1015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin) 11989011989910158401199051015840
1198621015840= 1198621015840
119908+ 120576 (119879
1015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin) 11989011989910158401199051015840
at 1199101015840= 0
1199061015840997888rarr 119880
1015840
infin 1198791015840997888rarr 119879
1015840
infin 1198621015840997888rarr 119862
1015840
infinas 1199101015840997888rarr infin
(7)
where 1198801015840
119901is the wall dimensional velocity 1198621015840
119908and 119879
1015840
119908are
the wall dimensional concentration and temperature respec-tively 1198801015840
infin 1198621015840infin and 119879
1015840
infinare the free stream dimensional
velocity concentration and temperature respectively and 1198991015840is the constant
It is clear from (1) that the suction velocity normal to theplate is either a constant or a function of time Hence thesuction velocity normal to the plate is taken as
1199071015840= minus1198810 (8)
where 1198810is a scale of suction velocity which is a nonzero
positive constantThe negative sign indicates that the suctionis towards the plate
Outside the boundary layer (2) gives
1
120588
1198891199011015840
1198891199091015840= minus
120593120584
11987010158401198801015840
infin (9)
In order to write the governing equations and the bound-ary conditions in dimensionless form the following nondi-mensional quantities are introduced
119906 =
1199061015840
1198801015840
infin
119910 =
11988101199101015840
119907
119880119901=
1198801015840
119901
1198801015840
infin
119899 =
1198991015840119907
1198812
0
119905 =
11990510158401198812
0
119907
120582 =
120590
120593
120579 =
1198791015840minus 1198791015840
infin
1198791015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin
119862 =
1198621015840minus 1198621015840
infin
1198621015840
119908minus 1198621015840
infin
Gr =120584119892120573 (119879
1015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin)
1198801015840
infin1198812
0
Gc =120584119892120573lowast(1198621015840
119908minus 1198621015840
infin)
1198801015840
infin1198812
0
119870 =
11987010158401198812
0
1205931205842
Pr =120588119888119901120593120592
119896
119877 =
119870119890119896
41205931205901199041198793
infin
119876 =
1198760120584
1205931205881198881199011198812
0
Sc = 120584
119863
119870119903=
1198701015840
119903120584
1198812
0
(10)
In view of (5)ndash(10) (2)ndash(4) reduce to the following non-dimensional form
120597119906
120597119905
minus
120597119906
120597119910
=
1205972119906
1205971199102+ Gr120579 + Gc119862 +
1
119870
(1 minus 119906)
120582
120597120579
120597119905
minus
120597120579
120597119910
=
1
Γ
1205972120579
1205971199102+ 119876120579
120597119862
120597119905
minus
120597119862
120597119910
=
1
Sc1205972120601
1205971199102minus 119870119903119862
(11)
where Γ = (1 minus 4(3119877 + 4))Pr and Gr Gc Pr 119877 Sc119876119870 and119870119903are the thermal Grashof number solutal Grashof number
Prandtl number radiation parameter Schmidt number heatgeneration parameter permeability of the porous mediumand chemical reaction parameter respectively
The corresponding dimensionless boundary conditionsare
119906 = 119880119901
120579 = 1 + 120576119890119899119905
119862 = 1 + 120576119890119899119905 at 119910 = 0
119906 997888rarr 1 120579 997888rarr 0 119862 997888rarr 0 as 119910 997888rarr infin
(12)
3 Solution of the Problem
Equations (11) are coupled nonlinear partial differentialequations and these cannot be solved in closed form How-ever these equations can be reduced to a set of ordinarydifferential equations which can be solved analytically This
4 ISRN Computational Mathematics
can be done by representing the velocity temperature andconcentration of the fluid in the neighborhood of the plate as
119906 (119910 119905) = 1199060(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051199061(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
120579 (119910 119905) = 1205790(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051205791(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
119862 (119910 119905) = 1198620(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051198621(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
(13)
Substituting (13) in (11) equating the harmonic andnonharmonic terms and neglecting the higher order termsof 0(120576)2 we obtain
11990610158401015840
0+ 1199061015840
0minus
1
119870
1199060= minus
1
119870
minus Gr1205790minus Gc119862
0
11990610158401015840
1+ 1199061015840
1minus (119899 +
1
119870
)1199061= minusGr120579
1minus Gc119862
1
12057910158401015840
0+ Γ1205791015840
0+ Γ119876120579
0= 0
12057910158401015840
1+ Γ1205791015840
1minus 119899120582Γ120579
1+ Γ119876120579
1= 0
11986210158401015840
0+ Sc1198621015840
0minus Sc119870
1199031198620= 0
11986210158401015840
1+ Sc1198621015840
1minus Sc (119870
119903+ 119899)119862
1= 0
(14)
where the prime denotes ordinary differentiationwith respectto 119910
The corresponding boundary conditions can be writtenas
1199060= 119880119901 1199061= 0 120579
0= 1
1205791= 1 119862
0= 1 119862
1= 1 at 119910 = 0
1199060997888rarr 1 119906
1997888rarr 0 120579
0997888rarr 0
1205791997888rarr 0 119862
0997888rarr 0 119862
1997888rarr 0 as 119910 997888rarr infin
(15)
Solving (14) subject to boundary conditions (15) weobtain the velocity temperature and concentration distribu-tions in the boundary layer as
119906 (119910 119905) = 1 + 1198604119890minus1198981119910+ 1198605119890minus1198984119910+ 1198606119890minus1198986119910
+ 120576119890119899119905(1198603119890minus1198985119910+ 1198601119890minus1198982119910+ 1198602119890minus1198983119910)
(16)
120579 (119910 119905) = 119890minus1198981119910+ 120576119890119899119905(119890minus1198982119910) (17)
119862 (119910 119905) = 119890minus1198984119910+ 120576119890119899119905(119890minus1198983119910) (18)
where the expressions for the constants are given in theappendix
The skin-friction Nusselt number and Sherwood num-ber are important physical parameters for this type of bound-ary layer flow These parameters can be defined and deter-mined as follows
Knowing the velocity field the skin-friction at the platecan be obtained which in non-dimensional form is given by
119862119891
=
1205911015840
119908
12058811988001198810
= (
120597119906
120597119910
)
119910=0
= (
1205971199060
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971199061
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus [11986041198981+ 11986051198984+ 11986061198986
+120576119890119899119905(11986031198985+ 11986011198982+ 11986021198983)]
(19)
Knowing the temperature field the rate of heat transfercoefficient can be obtained which in the non-dimensionalform in terms of the Nusselt number is given by
Nu = minus119909
(1205971198791205971199101015840)1199101015840=0
(1198791015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin)
997904rArr NuReminus1119909
= minus(
120597120579
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus(
1205971205790
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971205791
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus [minus1198981+ 120576119890119899119905(minus1198982)]
(20)
Knowing the concentration field the rate of mass transfercoefficient can be obtained which in the non-dimensionalform in terms of the Sherwood number is given by
Sh = minus119909
(1205971198621205971199101015840)1199101015840=0
(1198621015840
119908minus 1198621015840
infin)
997904rArr ShReminus1119909
= minus(
120597119862
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus[
1205971198620
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971198621
120597119910
]
119910=0
= minus [minus1198984+ 120576119890119899119905(minus1198983)]
(21)
where Re119909= 1198810119909120584 is the local Reynolds number
4 Results and Discussion
In the preceding section the problem of an unsteady freeconvective flow of a viscous incompressible thermally radi-ating and chemically reacting fluid past a semi-infinite platein the presence of heat generation was formulated and solvedby means of a perturbation method The expressions for thevelocity temperature and concentration were obtained Toillustrate the behavior of these physical quantities numericalvalues of these quantities were computed with respect tothe variations in the governing parameters namely thethermal Grashof number Gr the solutal Grashof numberGc Prandtl number Pr Schmidt number Sc the radiationparameter 119877 the permeability of the porous medium 119870the heat generation parameter 119876 and the chemical reaction
ISRN Computational Mathematics 5
5
4
3
2
1
00 2 4 6 8 10
119906
119910
Gr = 1 2 3 4
Figure 1 Velocity profiles for different values of Gr
parameter119870119903 In the present study the following default
parametric values are adopted Gr = 20 Gc = 20 119870 = 50120582 = 14 Sc = 02 119877 = 50 119870
119903= 20 119876 = 01 Pr = 071
119880119901= 04 119860 = 05 119905 = 10 119899 = 01 and 120576 = 001 All the
graphs and tables therefore correspond to these values unlessspecifically indicated on the appropriate graph
Figure 1 presents the typical velocity profiles in theboundary layer for various values of the thermal Grashofnumber Gr The thermal Grashof number Gr signifies therelative effect of the thermal buoyancy force to the viscoushydrodynamic force in the boundary layer It is observed thatan increase in Gr leads to a rise in the values of velocitydue to enhancement of thermal buoyancy force Here thepositive values of Gr correspond to cooling of the surfaceIt is observed that velocity increases rapidly near the wall ofthe porous plate as Gr increases and then decays to the freestream velocity
For the case of different values of the solutal Grahofnumber Gc the velocity profiles in the boundary layer areshown in Figure 2 The solutal Grashof number Gc definesthe ratio of the species buoyancy force to the viscous hydro-dynamic force As expected as Gc increases the fluid velocityincreases and the peak value is more distinctive maximumvalue in the vicinity of the plate and then decreases properlyto approach the free stream value Figure 3 shows the velocityprofiles for different values of the permeability of the porousmedium 119870 Clearly as 119870 increases the velocity tends toincrease
For different values of the radiation parameter 119877 thevelocity and temperature profiles are plotted in Figures 4(a)and 4(b) The radiation parameter 119877 defines the relativecontribution of conduction heat transfer to thermal radiationtransfer It is obvious that an increase in the radiation param-eter 119877 results in a decrease in the velocity and temperaturewithin the boundary layer as well as decreased thickness ofthe velocity and temperature boundary layers
Figures 5(a) and 5(b) illustrate the velocity and temper-ature profiles for different values of Prandtl number Pr Thenumerical results show that the effect of increasing valuesof Prandtl number results in a decreasing velocity From
Gc = 1 2 3 4
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10119910
Figure 2 Velocity profiles for different values of Gc
119870 = 2 5 7 10
4
3
2
1
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
Figure 3 Velocity profiles for different values of 119870
Figure 5(b) as expected the numerical results show thatan increase in the Prandtl number results in a decrease ofthe thermal boundary layer and in general lower averagetemperature with in the boundary layer The reason is thatsmaller values of Pr are equivalent to increase in the thermalconductivity of the fluid and therefore heat is able to diffuseaway from the heated surface more rapidly for higher valuesof Pr Hence in the case of smaller Prandtl numbers thethermal boundary layer is thicker and the rate of heat transferis reduced
Figures 6(a) and 6(b) display the effects of the Schmidtnumber Sc on velocity and concentration respectively TheSchmidt number Sc embodies the ratio of the momentum tothemass diffusivityThe Schmidt number therefore quantifiesthe relative effectiveness ofmomentumandmass transport bydiffusion in the hydrodynamic (velocity) and concentration(species) boundary layers As the Schmidt number increasesthe concentration decreases This causes the concentrationbuoyancy effects to decrease yielding a reduction in the fluidvelocity The reductions in the velocity and concentrationprofiles are accompanied by simultaneous reductions in the
6 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10
4
3
2
1
0
119906
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
(b)
Figure 4 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of119877 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119877
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
35
3
2
25
1
15
0
05
119906
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(b)
Figure 5 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Pr (b) Temperature profiles for different values of Pr
velocity and concentration boundary layers These behaviorsare evident from Figures 6(a) and 6(b)
The influences of chemical reaction parameter 119870119903on the
velocity and concentration across the boundary layer arepresented in Figures 7(a) and 7(b) It is seen that the velocityas well as concentration across the boundary layer decreaseswith an increase in the chemical reaction parameter119870
119903
Figures 8(a) and 8(b) depict the effect of heat generationparameter 119876 on the velocity and temperature It is noticedthat the velocity as well as temperature across the boundarylayer increases with an increase in the heat generationparameter 119876
Tables 1ndash7 show the effects of the thermal Grashofnumber Gr solutal Grashof number Gc radiation parameter119877 Prandtl number Pr Schmidt number Sc chemical reactionparameter 119870
119903 and heat generation parameter 119876 on the
skin friction coefficient 119862119891 Nusselt number Nu and the
Sherwood number Sh FromTables 1 and 2 it is observed thatas Gr or Gc increases the skin-friction coefficient increasesFrom Table 3 it can be seen that as the radiation parameter
Table 1 Effects of Gr on skin-friction 119862119891
Gr 119862119891
10 4596620 6273530 7950340 96272
increases the skin-friction decreases and the Nusselt numberincreases From Table 4 it is found that an increase in Prleads to a decrease in the skin-friction and an increase inthe Nusselt number From Table 5 it is observed that as theSchmidt number increases the skin-friction decreases andthe Sherwood number increases From Table 6 it is seenthat as the chemical reaction parameter 119870
119903increases the
skin-friction decreases and the Sherwood number increasesFrom Table 7 it is observed that as the heat generationparameter 119876increases the skin-friction increases and theNusselt number decreases
ISRN Computational Mathematics 7
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(a)
119862
1
08
06
04
02
0
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(b)
Figure 6 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Sc (b) Concentration profiles for different values of Sc
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
0
119862
0 1 2 3 4 5 6119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(b)
Figure 7 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119870119903 (b) Concentration profiles for different values of119870
119903
Table 2 Effects of Gc on skin-friction 119862119891
Gc 119862119891
10 5164920 6273530 7382140 84907
Table 3 Effects of R on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119877 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
30 67751 0357750 62735 0436970 60693 04763100 59186 05089
Table 4 Effects of Pr on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
Pr 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
071 62735 0436908 58946 0514410 53134 06811125 48515 08853
Table 5 Effects of Sc on skin-friction 119862119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
Sc 119862119891
ShReminus1119909
02 62735 0748704 56259 1129106 53141 1451909 50489 18861
8 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
00 2 4 6 8 10
119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015120579
(b)
Figure 8 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119876 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119876
Table 6 Effects of 119870119903on skin-friction 119862
119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
119870119903
119862119891
ShReminus1119909
20 62735 0748750 56402 1117370 54421 13018100 52532 15346
Table 7 Effects of Q on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119876 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
001 57173 05577005 59040 0512101 62735 04369015 72641 02863
5 Conclusions
The problem of unsteady two-dimensional laminar freeconvective mass transfer flow of a viscous incompressiblefluid through a highly porous medium past an infinitevertical moving porous plate in the thermal radiation heatgeneration and chemical reaction has been studied Thenondimensional governing equations were solved by pertur-bation technique Numerical results are presented to illustratethe details of the flow and heat transfer characteristics andtheir dependence on the material parameters We observethat the velocity increases as the thermal Grashof numberGr solutal Grashof number Gc permeability of the porousmedium 119870 or heat generation parameter 119876 increases whileit decreases as the Prndtl number Pr radiation parameterR Schmidt number Sc or the chemical reaction parameter119870119903 It is observed that the temperature decreases as the
Prandtl number Pr or radiation parameter 119877 increases whileit increases as the heat generation parameter119876 increasesThe
concentration decreases as the Schmidt number Sc or thechemical reaction parameter119870
119903increases
Appendix
One has
1198981=
Γ + radicΓ2minus 4Γ119876
2
1198982=
Γ + radicΓ2+ 4Γ (119899120582 minus 119876)
2
1198983=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4Sc (119899 + 119870119903)
2
1198984=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4119870119903Sc
2
1198985=
1 + radic1 + 4 (119899 + (1119870))
2
1198986=
1 + radic1 + (4119870)
2
1198601=
minusGr1198982
2minus 1198982minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198602=
minusGc1198982
3minus 1198983minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198603= minus (119860
1+ 1198602)
1198604=
minusGr1198982
1minus 1198981minus (1119870)
1198605=
minusGc1198982
4minus 1198984minus (1119870)
1198606= 119880119901minus (1 + 119860
4+ 1198605)
(A1)
ISRN Computational Mathematics 9
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can be done by representing the velocity temperature andconcentration of the fluid in the neighborhood of the plate as
119906 (119910 119905) = 1199060(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051199061(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
120579 (119910 119905) = 1205790(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051205791(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
119862 (119910 119905) = 1198620(119910) + 120576119890
1198991199051198621(119910) + 0(120576)
2+ sdot sdot sdot
(13)
Substituting (13) in (11) equating the harmonic andnonharmonic terms and neglecting the higher order termsof 0(120576)2 we obtain
11990610158401015840
0+ 1199061015840
0minus
1
119870
1199060= minus
1
119870
minus Gr1205790minus Gc119862
0
11990610158401015840
1+ 1199061015840
1minus (119899 +
1
119870
)1199061= minusGr120579
1minus Gc119862
1
12057910158401015840
0+ Γ1205791015840
0+ Γ119876120579
0= 0
12057910158401015840
1+ Γ1205791015840
1minus 119899120582Γ120579
1+ Γ119876120579
1= 0
11986210158401015840
0+ Sc1198621015840
0minus Sc119870
1199031198620= 0
11986210158401015840
1+ Sc1198621015840
1minus Sc (119870
119903+ 119899)119862
1= 0
(14)
where the prime denotes ordinary differentiationwith respectto 119910
The corresponding boundary conditions can be writtenas
1199060= 119880119901 1199061= 0 120579
0= 1
1205791= 1 119862
0= 1 119862
1= 1 at 119910 = 0
1199060997888rarr 1 119906
1997888rarr 0 120579
0997888rarr 0
1205791997888rarr 0 119862
0997888rarr 0 119862
1997888rarr 0 as 119910 997888rarr infin
(15)
Solving (14) subject to boundary conditions (15) weobtain the velocity temperature and concentration distribu-tions in the boundary layer as
119906 (119910 119905) = 1 + 1198604119890minus1198981119910+ 1198605119890minus1198984119910+ 1198606119890minus1198986119910
+ 120576119890119899119905(1198603119890minus1198985119910+ 1198601119890minus1198982119910+ 1198602119890minus1198983119910)
(16)
120579 (119910 119905) = 119890minus1198981119910+ 120576119890119899119905(119890minus1198982119910) (17)
119862 (119910 119905) = 119890minus1198984119910+ 120576119890119899119905(119890minus1198983119910) (18)
where the expressions for the constants are given in theappendix
The skin-friction Nusselt number and Sherwood num-ber are important physical parameters for this type of bound-ary layer flow These parameters can be defined and deter-mined as follows
Knowing the velocity field the skin-friction at the platecan be obtained which in non-dimensional form is given by
119862119891
=
1205911015840
119908
12058811988001198810
= (
120597119906
120597119910
)
119910=0
= (
1205971199060
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971199061
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus [11986041198981+ 11986051198984+ 11986061198986
+120576119890119899119905(11986031198985+ 11986011198982+ 11986021198983)]
(19)
Knowing the temperature field the rate of heat transfercoefficient can be obtained which in the non-dimensionalform in terms of the Nusselt number is given by
Nu = minus119909
(1205971198791205971199101015840)1199101015840=0
(1198791015840
119908minus 1198791015840
infin)
997904rArr NuReminus1119909
= minus(
120597120579
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus(
1205971205790
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971205791
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus [minus1198981+ 120576119890119899119905(minus1198982)]
(20)
Knowing the concentration field the rate of mass transfercoefficient can be obtained which in the non-dimensionalform in terms of the Sherwood number is given by
Sh = minus119909
(1205971198621205971199101015840)1199101015840=0
(1198621015840
119908minus 1198621015840
infin)
997904rArr ShReminus1119909
= minus(
120597119862
120597119910
)
119910=0
= minus[
1205971198620
120597119910
+ 120576119890119899119905 1205971198621
120597119910
]
119910=0
= minus [minus1198984+ 120576119890119899119905(minus1198983)]
(21)
where Re119909= 1198810119909120584 is the local Reynolds number
4 Results and Discussion
In the preceding section the problem of an unsteady freeconvective flow of a viscous incompressible thermally radi-ating and chemically reacting fluid past a semi-infinite platein the presence of heat generation was formulated and solvedby means of a perturbation method The expressions for thevelocity temperature and concentration were obtained Toillustrate the behavior of these physical quantities numericalvalues of these quantities were computed with respect tothe variations in the governing parameters namely thethermal Grashof number Gr the solutal Grashof numberGc Prandtl number Pr Schmidt number Sc the radiationparameter 119877 the permeability of the porous medium 119870the heat generation parameter 119876 and the chemical reaction
ISRN Computational Mathematics 5
5
4
3
2
1
00 2 4 6 8 10
119906
119910
Gr = 1 2 3 4
Figure 1 Velocity profiles for different values of Gr
parameter119870119903 In the present study the following default
parametric values are adopted Gr = 20 Gc = 20 119870 = 50120582 = 14 Sc = 02 119877 = 50 119870
119903= 20 119876 = 01 Pr = 071
119880119901= 04 119860 = 05 119905 = 10 119899 = 01 and 120576 = 001 All the
graphs and tables therefore correspond to these values unlessspecifically indicated on the appropriate graph
Figure 1 presents the typical velocity profiles in theboundary layer for various values of the thermal Grashofnumber Gr The thermal Grashof number Gr signifies therelative effect of the thermal buoyancy force to the viscoushydrodynamic force in the boundary layer It is observed thatan increase in Gr leads to a rise in the values of velocitydue to enhancement of thermal buoyancy force Here thepositive values of Gr correspond to cooling of the surfaceIt is observed that velocity increases rapidly near the wall ofthe porous plate as Gr increases and then decays to the freestream velocity
For the case of different values of the solutal Grahofnumber Gc the velocity profiles in the boundary layer areshown in Figure 2 The solutal Grashof number Gc definesthe ratio of the species buoyancy force to the viscous hydro-dynamic force As expected as Gc increases the fluid velocityincreases and the peak value is more distinctive maximumvalue in the vicinity of the plate and then decreases properlyto approach the free stream value Figure 3 shows the velocityprofiles for different values of the permeability of the porousmedium 119870 Clearly as 119870 increases the velocity tends toincrease
For different values of the radiation parameter 119877 thevelocity and temperature profiles are plotted in Figures 4(a)and 4(b) The radiation parameter 119877 defines the relativecontribution of conduction heat transfer to thermal radiationtransfer It is obvious that an increase in the radiation param-eter 119877 results in a decrease in the velocity and temperaturewithin the boundary layer as well as decreased thickness ofthe velocity and temperature boundary layers
Figures 5(a) and 5(b) illustrate the velocity and temper-ature profiles for different values of Prandtl number Pr Thenumerical results show that the effect of increasing valuesof Prandtl number results in a decreasing velocity From
Gc = 1 2 3 4
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10119910
Figure 2 Velocity profiles for different values of Gc
119870 = 2 5 7 10
4
3
2
1
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
Figure 3 Velocity profiles for different values of 119870
Figure 5(b) as expected the numerical results show thatan increase in the Prandtl number results in a decrease ofthe thermal boundary layer and in general lower averagetemperature with in the boundary layer The reason is thatsmaller values of Pr are equivalent to increase in the thermalconductivity of the fluid and therefore heat is able to diffuseaway from the heated surface more rapidly for higher valuesof Pr Hence in the case of smaller Prandtl numbers thethermal boundary layer is thicker and the rate of heat transferis reduced
Figures 6(a) and 6(b) display the effects of the Schmidtnumber Sc on velocity and concentration respectively TheSchmidt number Sc embodies the ratio of the momentum tothemass diffusivityThe Schmidt number therefore quantifiesthe relative effectiveness ofmomentumandmass transport bydiffusion in the hydrodynamic (velocity) and concentration(species) boundary layers As the Schmidt number increasesthe concentration decreases This causes the concentrationbuoyancy effects to decrease yielding a reduction in the fluidvelocity The reductions in the velocity and concentrationprofiles are accompanied by simultaneous reductions in the
6 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10
4
3
2
1
0
119906
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
(b)
Figure 4 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of119877 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119877
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
35
3
2
25
1
15
0
05
119906
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(b)
Figure 5 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Pr (b) Temperature profiles for different values of Pr
velocity and concentration boundary layers These behaviorsare evident from Figures 6(a) and 6(b)
The influences of chemical reaction parameter 119870119903on the
velocity and concentration across the boundary layer arepresented in Figures 7(a) and 7(b) It is seen that the velocityas well as concentration across the boundary layer decreaseswith an increase in the chemical reaction parameter119870
119903
Figures 8(a) and 8(b) depict the effect of heat generationparameter 119876 on the velocity and temperature It is noticedthat the velocity as well as temperature across the boundarylayer increases with an increase in the heat generationparameter 119876
Tables 1ndash7 show the effects of the thermal Grashofnumber Gr solutal Grashof number Gc radiation parameter119877 Prandtl number Pr Schmidt number Sc chemical reactionparameter 119870
119903 and heat generation parameter 119876 on the
skin friction coefficient 119862119891 Nusselt number Nu and the
Sherwood number Sh FromTables 1 and 2 it is observed thatas Gr or Gc increases the skin-friction coefficient increasesFrom Table 3 it can be seen that as the radiation parameter
Table 1 Effects of Gr on skin-friction 119862119891
Gr 119862119891
10 4596620 6273530 7950340 96272
increases the skin-friction decreases and the Nusselt numberincreases From Table 4 it is found that an increase in Prleads to a decrease in the skin-friction and an increase inthe Nusselt number From Table 5 it is observed that as theSchmidt number increases the skin-friction decreases andthe Sherwood number increases From Table 6 it is seenthat as the chemical reaction parameter 119870
119903increases the
skin-friction decreases and the Sherwood number increasesFrom Table 7 it is observed that as the heat generationparameter 119876increases the skin-friction increases and theNusselt number decreases
ISRN Computational Mathematics 7
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(a)
119862
1
08
06
04
02
0
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(b)
Figure 6 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Sc (b) Concentration profiles for different values of Sc
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
0
119862
0 1 2 3 4 5 6119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(b)
Figure 7 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119870119903 (b) Concentration profiles for different values of119870
119903
Table 2 Effects of Gc on skin-friction 119862119891
Gc 119862119891
10 5164920 6273530 7382140 84907
Table 3 Effects of R on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119877 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
30 67751 0357750 62735 0436970 60693 04763100 59186 05089
Table 4 Effects of Pr on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
Pr 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
071 62735 0436908 58946 0514410 53134 06811125 48515 08853
Table 5 Effects of Sc on skin-friction 119862119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
Sc 119862119891
ShReminus1119909
02 62735 0748704 56259 1129106 53141 1451909 50489 18861
8 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
00 2 4 6 8 10
119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015120579
(b)
Figure 8 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119876 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119876
Table 6 Effects of 119870119903on skin-friction 119862
119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
119870119903
119862119891
ShReminus1119909
20 62735 0748750 56402 1117370 54421 13018100 52532 15346
Table 7 Effects of Q on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119876 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
001 57173 05577005 59040 0512101 62735 04369015 72641 02863
5 Conclusions
The problem of unsteady two-dimensional laminar freeconvective mass transfer flow of a viscous incompressiblefluid through a highly porous medium past an infinitevertical moving porous plate in the thermal radiation heatgeneration and chemical reaction has been studied Thenondimensional governing equations were solved by pertur-bation technique Numerical results are presented to illustratethe details of the flow and heat transfer characteristics andtheir dependence on the material parameters We observethat the velocity increases as the thermal Grashof numberGr solutal Grashof number Gc permeability of the porousmedium 119870 or heat generation parameter 119876 increases whileit decreases as the Prndtl number Pr radiation parameterR Schmidt number Sc or the chemical reaction parameter119870119903 It is observed that the temperature decreases as the
Prandtl number Pr or radiation parameter 119877 increases whileit increases as the heat generation parameter119876 increasesThe
concentration decreases as the Schmidt number Sc or thechemical reaction parameter119870
119903increases
Appendix
One has
1198981=
Γ + radicΓ2minus 4Γ119876
2
1198982=
Γ + radicΓ2+ 4Γ (119899120582 minus 119876)
2
1198983=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4Sc (119899 + 119870119903)
2
1198984=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4119870119903Sc
2
1198985=
1 + radic1 + 4 (119899 + (1119870))
2
1198986=
1 + radic1 + (4119870)
2
1198601=
minusGr1198982
2minus 1198982minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198602=
minusGc1198982
3minus 1198983minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198603= minus (119860
1+ 1198602)
1198604=
minusGr1198982
1minus 1198981minus (1119870)
1198605=
minusGc1198982
4minus 1198984minus (1119870)
1198606= 119880119901minus (1 + 119860
4+ 1198605)
(A1)
ISRN Computational Mathematics 9
References
[1] M Kaviany Principles of Heat Transfer in a Porous MediaSpriger New York NY USA 2nd edition 1999
[2] K Vajravelu ldquoFlow and heat transfer in a saturated over astretching surfacerdquo Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik undMechanik vol 74 pp 605ndash614 1994
[3] A A Raptis ldquoFlow through a porous medium in the presenceof magnetic fieldrdquo International Journal of Energy Research vol10 no 1 pp 97ndash100 1986
[4] J T Hong C L Tien and M Kaviany ldquoNon-Darcian effectson vertical-plate natural convection in porous media with highporositiesrdquo International Journal of Heat andMass Transfer vol28 no 11 pp 2149ndash2157 1985
[5] C K Chen and C R Lin ldquoNatural convection from anisothermal vertical surface embedded in a thermally stratifiedhigh-porosity mediumrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 33 no 1 pp 131ndash138 1995
[6] B S Jaiswal and V M Soundalgekar ldquoOscillating plate temper-ature effects on a flow past an infinite vertical porous plate withconstant suction and embedded in a porousmediumrdquoHeat andMass Transfer vol 37 no 2-3 pp 125ndash131 2001
[7] P S Hiremath and P M Patil ldquoFree convection effects onthe oscillatory flow of a couple stress fluid through a porousmediumrdquo Acta Mechanica vol 98 no 1ndash4 pp 143ndash158 1993
[8] BCChandrasekhara andPNagaraju ldquoComposite heat transferin the case of a steady laminar flow of a gray fluid with smalloptical density past a horizontal plate embedded in a saturatedporous mediumrdquo Warme- und Stoffubertragung vol 23 no 6pp 343ndash352 1988
[9] K A Yih ldquoRadiation effect on natural convection over avertical cylinder embedded in porous mediardquo InternationalCommunications in Heat and Mass Transfer vol 26 no 2 pp259ndash267 1999
[10] A A Mohammadein and M F El-Amin ldquoThermal radiationeffects on power-law fluids over a horizontal plate embedded ina porous mediumrdquo International Communications in Heat andMass Transfer vol 27 no 7 pp 1025ndash1035 2000
[11] A Raptis ldquoRadiation and flow through a porous mediumrdquoJournal of Porous Media vol 4 no 3 pp 271ndash273 2001
[12] A Raptis and C Perdikis ldquoUnsteady flow through a highlyporous medium in the presence of radiationrdquo Transport inPorous Media vol 57 no 2 pp 171ndash179 2004
[13] P L Chambre and J D Young ldquoOn the diffusion of a chemicallyreactive species in a laminar boundary layer flowrdquo Physics ofFluids vol 1 no 1 pp 48ndash54 1958
[14] U N Das R Deka and V M Soundalgekar ldquoEffects of masstransfer on flowpast an impulsively started infinite vertical platewith constant heat flux and chemical reactionrdquo Forschung imIngenieurwesen vol 60 no 10 pp 284ndash287 1994
[15] R Muthucumarswamy and P Ganesan ldquoEffect of the chemicalreaction and injection on the flow characteristics in an unsteadyupward motion of an isothermal platerdquo Journal of AppliedMechanics and Technical Physics vol 42 pp 665ndash671 2001
[16] J Anand Rao and S Shivaiah ldquoChemical reaction effectson an unsteady MHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical porous plate with constant suction and heat sourcerdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 7 no 8 pp 98ndash118 2011
[17] K Vajravelu and A Hadjinicolaou ldquoHeat transfer in a viscousfluid over a stretching sheet with viscous dissipation and
internal heat generationrdquo International Communications inHeatand Mass Transfer vol 20 no 3 pp 417ndash430 1993
[18] M M Molla M A Hossain and L S Yao ldquoNatural convectionflow along a vertical wavy surface with uniform surface temper-ature in presence of heat generationabsorptionrdquo InternationalJournal of Thermal Sciences vol 43 no 2 pp 157ndash163 2004
[19] M S Alam M M Rahman and M A Sattar ldquoMHD Freeconvection heat and mass transfer flow past an inclined surfacewith heat generationrdquo Thammasat International Journal ofScience and Technology vol 11 no 4 pp 1ndash8 2006
[20] A J Chamkha ldquoUnsteady MHD convective heat and masstransfer past a semi-infinite vertical permeable moving platewith heat absorptionrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 42 no 2 pp 217ndash230 2004
[21] F M Hady R A Mohamed and A Mahdy ldquoMHD free con-vection flow along a vertical wavy surface with heat generationor absorption effectrdquo International Communications inHeat andMass Transfer vol 33 no 10 pp 1253ndash1263 2006
[22] V Ambethkar ldquoNumerical solutions of heat and mass transfereffects of an unsteadyMHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical plate with constant suction and heat source of sinkrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 5 no 3 pp 96ndash115 2009
[23] S Mohammed Ibrahim and N Bhaskar Reddy ldquoRadiation andmass transfer effects on MHD free convection flow along astretching surfacewith viscous dissipation and heat generationrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 8 no 8 pp 1ndash21 2012
[24] M Q BrewsterThermal Radiative Transfer and Properties JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 1992
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
ISRN Computational Mathematics 5
5
4
3
2
1
00 2 4 6 8 10
119906
119910
Gr = 1 2 3 4
Figure 1 Velocity profiles for different values of Gr
parameter119870119903 In the present study the following default
parametric values are adopted Gr = 20 Gc = 20 119870 = 50120582 = 14 Sc = 02 119877 = 50 119870
119903= 20 119876 = 01 Pr = 071
119880119901= 04 119860 = 05 119905 = 10 119899 = 01 and 120576 = 001 All the
graphs and tables therefore correspond to these values unlessspecifically indicated on the appropriate graph
Figure 1 presents the typical velocity profiles in theboundary layer for various values of the thermal Grashofnumber Gr The thermal Grashof number Gr signifies therelative effect of the thermal buoyancy force to the viscoushydrodynamic force in the boundary layer It is observed thatan increase in Gr leads to a rise in the values of velocitydue to enhancement of thermal buoyancy force Here thepositive values of Gr correspond to cooling of the surfaceIt is observed that velocity increases rapidly near the wall ofthe porous plate as Gr increases and then decays to the freestream velocity
For the case of different values of the solutal Grahofnumber Gc the velocity profiles in the boundary layer areshown in Figure 2 The solutal Grashof number Gc definesthe ratio of the species buoyancy force to the viscous hydro-dynamic force As expected as Gc increases the fluid velocityincreases and the peak value is more distinctive maximumvalue in the vicinity of the plate and then decreases properlyto approach the free stream value Figure 3 shows the velocityprofiles for different values of the permeability of the porousmedium 119870 Clearly as 119870 increases the velocity tends toincrease
For different values of the radiation parameter 119877 thevelocity and temperature profiles are plotted in Figures 4(a)and 4(b) The radiation parameter 119877 defines the relativecontribution of conduction heat transfer to thermal radiationtransfer It is obvious that an increase in the radiation param-eter 119877 results in a decrease in the velocity and temperaturewithin the boundary layer as well as decreased thickness ofthe velocity and temperature boundary layers
Figures 5(a) and 5(b) illustrate the velocity and temper-ature profiles for different values of Prandtl number Pr Thenumerical results show that the effect of increasing valuesof Prandtl number results in a decreasing velocity From
Gc = 1 2 3 4
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10119910
Figure 2 Velocity profiles for different values of Gc
119870 = 2 5 7 10
4
3
2
1
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
Figure 3 Velocity profiles for different values of 119870
Figure 5(b) as expected the numerical results show thatan increase in the Prandtl number results in a decrease ofthe thermal boundary layer and in general lower averagetemperature with in the boundary layer The reason is thatsmaller values of Pr are equivalent to increase in the thermalconductivity of the fluid and therefore heat is able to diffuseaway from the heated surface more rapidly for higher valuesof Pr Hence in the case of smaller Prandtl numbers thethermal boundary layer is thicker and the rate of heat transferis reduced
Figures 6(a) and 6(b) display the effects of the Schmidtnumber Sc on velocity and concentration respectively TheSchmidt number Sc embodies the ratio of the momentum tothemass diffusivityThe Schmidt number therefore quantifiesthe relative effectiveness ofmomentumandmass transport bydiffusion in the hydrodynamic (velocity) and concentration(species) boundary layers As the Schmidt number increasesthe concentration decreases This causes the concentrationbuoyancy effects to decrease yielding a reduction in the fluidvelocity The reductions in the velocity and concentrationprofiles are accompanied by simultaneous reductions in the
6 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10
4
3
2
1
0
119906
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
(b)
Figure 4 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of119877 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119877
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
35
3
2
25
1
15
0
05
119906
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(b)
Figure 5 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Pr (b) Temperature profiles for different values of Pr
velocity and concentration boundary layers These behaviorsare evident from Figures 6(a) and 6(b)
The influences of chemical reaction parameter 119870119903on the
velocity and concentration across the boundary layer arepresented in Figures 7(a) and 7(b) It is seen that the velocityas well as concentration across the boundary layer decreaseswith an increase in the chemical reaction parameter119870
119903
Figures 8(a) and 8(b) depict the effect of heat generationparameter 119876 on the velocity and temperature It is noticedthat the velocity as well as temperature across the boundarylayer increases with an increase in the heat generationparameter 119876
Tables 1ndash7 show the effects of the thermal Grashofnumber Gr solutal Grashof number Gc radiation parameter119877 Prandtl number Pr Schmidt number Sc chemical reactionparameter 119870
119903 and heat generation parameter 119876 on the
skin friction coefficient 119862119891 Nusselt number Nu and the
Sherwood number Sh FromTables 1 and 2 it is observed thatas Gr or Gc increases the skin-friction coefficient increasesFrom Table 3 it can be seen that as the radiation parameter
Table 1 Effects of Gr on skin-friction 119862119891
Gr 119862119891
10 4596620 6273530 7950340 96272
increases the skin-friction decreases and the Nusselt numberincreases From Table 4 it is found that an increase in Prleads to a decrease in the skin-friction and an increase inthe Nusselt number From Table 5 it is observed that as theSchmidt number increases the skin-friction decreases andthe Sherwood number increases From Table 6 it is seenthat as the chemical reaction parameter 119870
119903increases the
skin-friction decreases and the Sherwood number increasesFrom Table 7 it is observed that as the heat generationparameter 119876increases the skin-friction increases and theNusselt number decreases
ISRN Computational Mathematics 7
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(a)
119862
1
08
06
04
02
0
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(b)
Figure 6 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Sc (b) Concentration profiles for different values of Sc
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
0
119862
0 1 2 3 4 5 6119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(b)
Figure 7 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119870119903 (b) Concentration profiles for different values of119870
119903
Table 2 Effects of Gc on skin-friction 119862119891
Gc 119862119891
10 5164920 6273530 7382140 84907
Table 3 Effects of R on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119877 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
30 67751 0357750 62735 0436970 60693 04763100 59186 05089
Table 4 Effects of Pr on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
Pr 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
071 62735 0436908 58946 0514410 53134 06811125 48515 08853
Table 5 Effects of Sc on skin-friction 119862119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
Sc 119862119891
ShReminus1119909
02 62735 0748704 56259 1129106 53141 1451909 50489 18861
8 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
00 2 4 6 8 10
119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015120579
(b)
Figure 8 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119876 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119876
Table 6 Effects of 119870119903on skin-friction 119862
119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
119870119903
119862119891
ShReminus1119909
20 62735 0748750 56402 1117370 54421 13018100 52532 15346
Table 7 Effects of Q on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119876 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
001 57173 05577005 59040 0512101 62735 04369015 72641 02863
5 Conclusions
The problem of unsteady two-dimensional laminar freeconvective mass transfer flow of a viscous incompressiblefluid through a highly porous medium past an infinitevertical moving porous plate in the thermal radiation heatgeneration and chemical reaction has been studied Thenondimensional governing equations were solved by pertur-bation technique Numerical results are presented to illustratethe details of the flow and heat transfer characteristics andtheir dependence on the material parameters We observethat the velocity increases as the thermal Grashof numberGr solutal Grashof number Gc permeability of the porousmedium 119870 or heat generation parameter 119876 increases whileit decreases as the Prndtl number Pr radiation parameterR Schmidt number Sc or the chemical reaction parameter119870119903 It is observed that the temperature decreases as the
Prandtl number Pr or radiation parameter 119877 increases whileit increases as the heat generation parameter119876 increasesThe
concentration decreases as the Schmidt number Sc or thechemical reaction parameter119870
119903increases
Appendix
One has
1198981=
Γ + radicΓ2minus 4Γ119876
2
1198982=
Γ + radicΓ2+ 4Γ (119899120582 minus 119876)
2
1198983=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4Sc (119899 + 119870119903)
2
1198984=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4119870119903Sc
2
1198985=
1 + radic1 + 4 (119899 + (1119870))
2
1198986=
1 + radic1 + (4119870)
2
1198601=
minusGr1198982
2minus 1198982minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198602=
minusGc1198982
3minus 1198983minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198603= minus (119860
1+ 1198602)
1198604=
minusGr1198982
1minus 1198981minus (1119870)
1198605=
minusGc1198982
4minus 1198984minus (1119870)
1198606= 119880119901minus (1 + 119860
4+ 1198605)
(A1)
ISRN Computational Mathematics 9
References
[1] M Kaviany Principles of Heat Transfer in a Porous MediaSpriger New York NY USA 2nd edition 1999
[2] K Vajravelu ldquoFlow and heat transfer in a saturated over astretching surfacerdquo Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik undMechanik vol 74 pp 605ndash614 1994
[3] A A Raptis ldquoFlow through a porous medium in the presenceof magnetic fieldrdquo International Journal of Energy Research vol10 no 1 pp 97ndash100 1986
[4] J T Hong C L Tien and M Kaviany ldquoNon-Darcian effectson vertical-plate natural convection in porous media with highporositiesrdquo International Journal of Heat andMass Transfer vol28 no 11 pp 2149ndash2157 1985
[5] C K Chen and C R Lin ldquoNatural convection from anisothermal vertical surface embedded in a thermally stratifiedhigh-porosity mediumrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 33 no 1 pp 131ndash138 1995
[6] B S Jaiswal and V M Soundalgekar ldquoOscillating plate temper-ature effects on a flow past an infinite vertical porous plate withconstant suction and embedded in a porousmediumrdquoHeat andMass Transfer vol 37 no 2-3 pp 125ndash131 2001
[7] P S Hiremath and P M Patil ldquoFree convection effects onthe oscillatory flow of a couple stress fluid through a porousmediumrdquo Acta Mechanica vol 98 no 1ndash4 pp 143ndash158 1993
[8] BCChandrasekhara andPNagaraju ldquoComposite heat transferin the case of a steady laminar flow of a gray fluid with smalloptical density past a horizontal plate embedded in a saturatedporous mediumrdquo Warme- und Stoffubertragung vol 23 no 6pp 343ndash352 1988
[9] K A Yih ldquoRadiation effect on natural convection over avertical cylinder embedded in porous mediardquo InternationalCommunications in Heat and Mass Transfer vol 26 no 2 pp259ndash267 1999
[10] A A Mohammadein and M F El-Amin ldquoThermal radiationeffects on power-law fluids over a horizontal plate embedded ina porous mediumrdquo International Communications in Heat andMass Transfer vol 27 no 7 pp 1025ndash1035 2000
[11] A Raptis ldquoRadiation and flow through a porous mediumrdquoJournal of Porous Media vol 4 no 3 pp 271ndash273 2001
[12] A Raptis and C Perdikis ldquoUnsteady flow through a highlyporous medium in the presence of radiationrdquo Transport inPorous Media vol 57 no 2 pp 171ndash179 2004
[13] P L Chambre and J D Young ldquoOn the diffusion of a chemicallyreactive species in a laminar boundary layer flowrdquo Physics ofFluids vol 1 no 1 pp 48ndash54 1958
[14] U N Das R Deka and V M Soundalgekar ldquoEffects of masstransfer on flowpast an impulsively started infinite vertical platewith constant heat flux and chemical reactionrdquo Forschung imIngenieurwesen vol 60 no 10 pp 284ndash287 1994
[15] R Muthucumarswamy and P Ganesan ldquoEffect of the chemicalreaction and injection on the flow characteristics in an unsteadyupward motion of an isothermal platerdquo Journal of AppliedMechanics and Technical Physics vol 42 pp 665ndash671 2001
[16] J Anand Rao and S Shivaiah ldquoChemical reaction effectson an unsteady MHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical porous plate with constant suction and heat sourcerdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 7 no 8 pp 98ndash118 2011
[17] K Vajravelu and A Hadjinicolaou ldquoHeat transfer in a viscousfluid over a stretching sheet with viscous dissipation and
internal heat generationrdquo International Communications inHeatand Mass Transfer vol 20 no 3 pp 417ndash430 1993
[18] M M Molla M A Hossain and L S Yao ldquoNatural convectionflow along a vertical wavy surface with uniform surface temper-ature in presence of heat generationabsorptionrdquo InternationalJournal of Thermal Sciences vol 43 no 2 pp 157ndash163 2004
[19] M S Alam M M Rahman and M A Sattar ldquoMHD Freeconvection heat and mass transfer flow past an inclined surfacewith heat generationrdquo Thammasat International Journal ofScience and Technology vol 11 no 4 pp 1ndash8 2006
[20] A J Chamkha ldquoUnsteady MHD convective heat and masstransfer past a semi-infinite vertical permeable moving platewith heat absorptionrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 42 no 2 pp 217ndash230 2004
[21] F M Hady R A Mohamed and A Mahdy ldquoMHD free con-vection flow along a vertical wavy surface with heat generationor absorption effectrdquo International Communications inHeat andMass Transfer vol 33 no 10 pp 1253ndash1263 2006
[22] V Ambethkar ldquoNumerical solutions of heat and mass transfereffects of an unsteadyMHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical plate with constant suction and heat source of sinkrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 5 no 3 pp 96ndash115 2009
[23] S Mohammed Ibrahim and N Bhaskar Reddy ldquoRadiation andmass transfer effects on MHD free convection flow along astretching surfacewith viscous dissipation and heat generationrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 8 no 8 pp 1ndash21 2012
[24] M Q BrewsterThermal Radiative Transfer and Properties JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 1992
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
6 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10
4
3
2
1
0
119906
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119877 = 3 5 7 10120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
(b)
Figure 4 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of119877 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119877
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
35
3
2
25
1
15
0
05
119906
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(a)
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
120579
1
08
06
04
02
0
Pr = 071 08 1 125
(b)
Figure 5 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Pr (b) Temperature profiles for different values of Pr
velocity and concentration boundary layers These behaviorsare evident from Figures 6(a) and 6(b)
The influences of chemical reaction parameter 119870119903on the
velocity and concentration across the boundary layer arepresented in Figures 7(a) and 7(b) It is seen that the velocityas well as concentration across the boundary layer decreaseswith an increase in the chemical reaction parameter119870
119903
Figures 8(a) and 8(b) depict the effect of heat generationparameter 119876 on the velocity and temperature It is noticedthat the velocity as well as temperature across the boundarylayer increases with an increase in the heat generationparameter 119876
Tables 1ndash7 show the effects of the thermal Grashofnumber Gr solutal Grashof number Gc radiation parameter119877 Prandtl number Pr Schmidt number Sc chemical reactionparameter 119870
119903 and heat generation parameter 119876 on the
skin friction coefficient 119862119891 Nusselt number Nu and the
Sherwood number Sh FromTables 1 and 2 it is observed thatas Gr or Gc increases the skin-friction coefficient increasesFrom Table 3 it can be seen that as the radiation parameter
Table 1 Effects of Gr on skin-friction 119862119891
Gr 119862119891
10 4596620 6273530 7950340 96272
increases the skin-friction decreases and the Nusselt numberincreases From Table 4 it is found that an increase in Prleads to a decrease in the skin-friction and an increase inthe Nusselt number From Table 5 it is observed that as theSchmidt number increases the skin-friction decreases andthe Sherwood number increases From Table 6 it is seenthat as the chemical reaction parameter 119870
119903increases the
skin-friction decreases and the Sherwood number increasesFrom Table 7 it is observed that as the heat generationparameter 119876increases the skin-friction increases and theNusselt number decreases
ISRN Computational Mathematics 7
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(a)
119862
1
08
06
04
02
0
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(b)
Figure 6 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Sc (b) Concentration profiles for different values of Sc
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
0
119862
0 1 2 3 4 5 6119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(b)
Figure 7 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119870119903 (b) Concentration profiles for different values of119870
119903
Table 2 Effects of Gc on skin-friction 119862119891
Gc 119862119891
10 5164920 6273530 7382140 84907
Table 3 Effects of R on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119877 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
30 67751 0357750 62735 0436970 60693 04763100 59186 05089
Table 4 Effects of Pr on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
Pr 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
071 62735 0436908 58946 0514410 53134 06811125 48515 08853
Table 5 Effects of Sc on skin-friction 119862119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
Sc 119862119891
ShReminus1119909
02 62735 0748704 56259 1129106 53141 1451909 50489 18861
8 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
00 2 4 6 8 10
119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015120579
(b)
Figure 8 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119876 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119876
Table 6 Effects of 119870119903on skin-friction 119862
119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
119870119903
119862119891
ShReminus1119909
20 62735 0748750 56402 1117370 54421 13018100 52532 15346
Table 7 Effects of Q on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119876 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
001 57173 05577005 59040 0512101 62735 04369015 72641 02863
5 Conclusions
The problem of unsteady two-dimensional laminar freeconvective mass transfer flow of a viscous incompressiblefluid through a highly porous medium past an infinitevertical moving porous plate in the thermal radiation heatgeneration and chemical reaction has been studied Thenondimensional governing equations were solved by pertur-bation technique Numerical results are presented to illustratethe details of the flow and heat transfer characteristics andtheir dependence on the material parameters We observethat the velocity increases as the thermal Grashof numberGr solutal Grashof number Gc permeability of the porousmedium 119870 or heat generation parameter 119876 increases whileit decreases as the Prndtl number Pr radiation parameterR Schmidt number Sc or the chemical reaction parameter119870119903 It is observed that the temperature decreases as the
Prandtl number Pr or radiation parameter 119877 increases whileit increases as the heat generation parameter119876 increasesThe
concentration decreases as the Schmidt number Sc or thechemical reaction parameter119870
119903increases
Appendix
One has
1198981=
Γ + radicΓ2minus 4Γ119876
2
1198982=
Γ + radicΓ2+ 4Γ (119899120582 minus 119876)
2
1198983=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4Sc (119899 + 119870119903)
2
1198984=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4119870119903Sc
2
1198985=
1 + radic1 + 4 (119899 + (1119870))
2
1198986=
1 + radic1 + (4119870)
2
1198601=
minusGr1198982
2minus 1198982minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198602=
minusGc1198982
3minus 1198983minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198603= minus (119860
1+ 1198602)
1198604=
minusGr1198982
1minus 1198981minus (1119870)
1198605=
minusGc1198982
4minus 1198984minus (1119870)
1198606= 119880119901minus (1 + 119860
4+ 1198605)
(A1)
ISRN Computational Mathematics 9
References
[1] M Kaviany Principles of Heat Transfer in a Porous MediaSpriger New York NY USA 2nd edition 1999
[2] K Vajravelu ldquoFlow and heat transfer in a saturated over astretching surfacerdquo Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik undMechanik vol 74 pp 605ndash614 1994
[3] A A Raptis ldquoFlow through a porous medium in the presenceof magnetic fieldrdquo International Journal of Energy Research vol10 no 1 pp 97ndash100 1986
[4] J T Hong C L Tien and M Kaviany ldquoNon-Darcian effectson vertical-plate natural convection in porous media with highporositiesrdquo International Journal of Heat andMass Transfer vol28 no 11 pp 2149ndash2157 1985
[5] C K Chen and C R Lin ldquoNatural convection from anisothermal vertical surface embedded in a thermally stratifiedhigh-porosity mediumrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 33 no 1 pp 131ndash138 1995
[6] B S Jaiswal and V M Soundalgekar ldquoOscillating plate temper-ature effects on a flow past an infinite vertical porous plate withconstant suction and embedded in a porousmediumrdquoHeat andMass Transfer vol 37 no 2-3 pp 125ndash131 2001
[7] P S Hiremath and P M Patil ldquoFree convection effects onthe oscillatory flow of a couple stress fluid through a porousmediumrdquo Acta Mechanica vol 98 no 1ndash4 pp 143ndash158 1993
[8] BCChandrasekhara andPNagaraju ldquoComposite heat transferin the case of a steady laminar flow of a gray fluid with smalloptical density past a horizontal plate embedded in a saturatedporous mediumrdquo Warme- und Stoffubertragung vol 23 no 6pp 343ndash352 1988
[9] K A Yih ldquoRadiation effect on natural convection over avertical cylinder embedded in porous mediardquo InternationalCommunications in Heat and Mass Transfer vol 26 no 2 pp259ndash267 1999
[10] A A Mohammadein and M F El-Amin ldquoThermal radiationeffects on power-law fluids over a horizontal plate embedded ina porous mediumrdquo International Communications in Heat andMass Transfer vol 27 no 7 pp 1025ndash1035 2000
[11] A Raptis ldquoRadiation and flow through a porous mediumrdquoJournal of Porous Media vol 4 no 3 pp 271ndash273 2001
[12] A Raptis and C Perdikis ldquoUnsteady flow through a highlyporous medium in the presence of radiationrdquo Transport inPorous Media vol 57 no 2 pp 171ndash179 2004
[13] P L Chambre and J D Young ldquoOn the diffusion of a chemicallyreactive species in a laminar boundary layer flowrdquo Physics ofFluids vol 1 no 1 pp 48ndash54 1958
[14] U N Das R Deka and V M Soundalgekar ldquoEffects of masstransfer on flowpast an impulsively started infinite vertical platewith constant heat flux and chemical reactionrdquo Forschung imIngenieurwesen vol 60 no 10 pp 284ndash287 1994
[15] R Muthucumarswamy and P Ganesan ldquoEffect of the chemicalreaction and injection on the flow characteristics in an unsteadyupward motion of an isothermal platerdquo Journal of AppliedMechanics and Technical Physics vol 42 pp 665ndash671 2001
[16] J Anand Rao and S Shivaiah ldquoChemical reaction effectson an unsteady MHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical porous plate with constant suction and heat sourcerdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 7 no 8 pp 98ndash118 2011
[17] K Vajravelu and A Hadjinicolaou ldquoHeat transfer in a viscousfluid over a stretching sheet with viscous dissipation and
internal heat generationrdquo International Communications inHeatand Mass Transfer vol 20 no 3 pp 417ndash430 1993
[18] M M Molla M A Hossain and L S Yao ldquoNatural convectionflow along a vertical wavy surface with uniform surface temper-ature in presence of heat generationabsorptionrdquo InternationalJournal of Thermal Sciences vol 43 no 2 pp 157ndash163 2004
[19] M S Alam M M Rahman and M A Sattar ldquoMHD Freeconvection heat and mass transfer flow past an inclined surfacewith heat generationrdquo Thammasat International Journal ofScience and Technology vol 11 no 4 pp 1ndash8 2006
[20] A J Chamkha ldquoUnsteady MHD convective heat and masstransfer past a semi-infinite vertical permeable moving platewith heat absorptionrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 42 no 2 pp 217ndash230 2004
[21] F M Hady R A Mohamed and A Mahdy ldquoMHD free con-vection flow along a vertical wavy surface with heat generationor absorption effectrdquo International Communications inHeat andMass Transfer vol 33 no 10 pp 1253ndash1263 2006
[22] V Ambethkar ldquoNumerical solutions of heat and mass transfereffects of an unsteadyMHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical plate with constant suction and heat source of sinkrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 5 no 3 pp 96ndash115 2009
[23] S Mohammed Ibrahim and N Bhaskar Reddy ldquoRadiation andmass transfer effects on MHD free convection flow along astretching surfacewith viscous dissipation and heat generationrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 8 no 8 pp 1ndash21 2012
[24] M Q BrewsterThermal Radiative Transfer and Properties JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 1992
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
ISRN Computational Mathematics 7
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(a)
119862
1
08
06
04
02
0
119910
10 2 3 4 5 6
Sc = 02 04 06 09
(b)
Figure 6 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of Sc (b) Concentration profiles for different values of Sc
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
0
119862
0 1 2 3 4 5 6119910
119870119903 = 2 5 7 10
(b)
Figure 7 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119870119903 (b) Concentration profiles for different values of119870
119903
Table 2 Effects of Gc on skin-friction 119862119891
Gc 119862119891
10 5164920 6273530 7382140 84907
Table 3 Effects of R on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119877 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
30 67751 0357750 62735 0436970 60693 04763100 59186 05089
Table 4 Effects of Pr on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
Pr 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
071 62735 0436908 58946 0514410 53134 06811125 48515 08853
Table 5 Effects of Sc on skin-friction 119862119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
Sc 119862119891
ShReminus1119909
02 62735 0748704 56259 1129106 53141 1451909 50489 18861
8 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
00 2 4 6 8 10
119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015120579
(b)
Figure 8 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119876 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119876
Table 6 Effects of 119870119903on skin-friction 119862
119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
119870119903
119862119891
ShReminus1119909
20 62735 0748750 56402 1117370 54421 13018100 52532 15346
Table 7 Effects of Q on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119876 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
001 57173 05577005 59040 0512101 62735 04369015 72641 02863
5 Conclusions
The problem of unsteady two-dimensional laminar freeconvective mass transfer flow of a viscous incompressiblefluid through a highly porous medium past an infinitevertical moving porous plate in the thermal radiation heatgeneration and chemical reaction has been studied Thenondimensional governing equations were solved by pertur-bation technique Numerical results are presented to illustratethe details of the flow and heat transfer characteristics andtheir dependence on the material parameters We observethat the velocity increases as the thermal Grashof numberGr solutal Grashof number Gc permeability of the porousmedium 119870 or heat generation parameter 119876 increases whileit decreases as the Prndtl number Pr radiation parameterR Schmidt number Sc or the chemical reaction parameter119870119903 It is observed that the temperature decreases as the
Prandtl number Pr or radiation parameter 119877 increases whileit increases as the heat generation parameter119876 increasesThe
concentration decreases as the Schmidt number Sc or thechemical reaction parameter119870
119903increases
Appendix
One has
1198981=
Γ + radicΓ2minus 4Γ119876
2
1198982=
Γ + radicΓ2+ 4Γ (119899120582 minus 119876)
2
1198983=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4Sc (119899 + 119870119903)
2
1198984=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4119870119903Sc
2
1198985=
1 + radic1 + 4 (119899 + (1119870))
2
1198986=
1 + radic1 + (4119870)
2
1198601=
minusGr1198982
2minus 1198982minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198602=
minusGc1198982
3minus 1198983minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198603= minus (119860
1+ 1198602)
1198604=
minusGr1198982
1minus 1198981minus (1119870)
1198605=
minusGc1198982
4minus 1198984minus (1119870)
1198606= 119880119901minus (1 + 119860
4+ 1198605)
(A1)
ISRN Computational Mathematics 9
References
[1] M Kaviany Principles of Heat Transfer in a Porous MediaSpriger New York NY USA 2nd edition 1999
[2] K Vajravelu ldquoFlow and heat transfer in a saturated over astretching surfacerdquo Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik undMechanik vol 74 pp 605ndash614 1994
[3] A A Raptis ldquoFlow through a porous medium in the presenceof magnetic fieldrdquo International Journal of Energy Research vol10 no 1 pp 97ndash100 1986
[4] J T Hong C L Tien and M Kaviany ldquoNon-Darcian effectson vertical-plate natural convection in porous media with highporositiesrdquo International Journal of Heat andMass Transfer vol28 no 11 pp 2149ndash2157 1985
[5] C K Chen and C R Lin ldquoNatural convection from anisothermal vertical surface embedded in a thermally stratifiedhigh-porosity mediumrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 33 no 1 pp 131ndash138 1995
[6] B S Jaiswal and V M Soundalgekar ldquoOscillating plate temper-ature effects on a flow past an infinite vertical porous plate withconstant suction and embedded in a porousmediumrdquoHeat andMass Transfer vol 37 no 2-3 pp 125ndash131 2001
[7] P S Hiremath and P M Patil ldquoFree convection effects onthe oscillatory flow of a couple stress fluid through a porousmediumrdquo Acta Mechanica vol 98 no 1ndash4 pp 143ndash158 1993
[8] BCChandrasekhara andPNagaraju ldquoComposite heat transferin the case of a steady laminar flow of a gray fluid with smalloptical density past a horizontal plate embedded in a saturatedporous mediumrdquo Warme- und Stoffubertragung vol 23 no 6pp 343ndash352 1988
[9] K A Yih ldquoRadiation effect on natural convection over avertical cylinder embedded in porous mediardquo InternationalCommunications in Heat and Mass Transfer vol 26 no 2 pp259ndash267 1999
[10] A A Mohammadein and M F El-Amin ldquoThermal radiationeffects on power-law fluids over a horizontal plate embedded ina porous mediumrdquo International Communications in Heat andMass Transfer vol 27 no 7 pp 1025ndash1035 2000
[11] A Raptis ldquoRadiation and flow through a porous mediumrdquoJournal of Porous Media vol 4 no 3 pp 271ndash273 2001
[12] A Raptis and C Perdikis ldquoUnsteady flow through a highlyporous medium in the presence of radiationrdquo Transport inPorous Media vol 57 no 2 pp 171ndash179 2004
[13] P L Chambre and J D Young ldquoOn the diffusion of a chemicallyreactive species in a laminar boundary layer flowrdquo Physics ofFluids vol 1 no 1 pp 48ndash54 1958
[14] U N Das R Deka and V M Soundalgekar ldquoEffects of masstransfer on flowpast an impulsively started infinite vertical platewith constant heat flux and chemical reactionrdquo Forschung imIngenieurwesen vol 60 no 10 pp 284ndash287 1994
[15] R Muthucumarswamy and P Ganesan ldquoEffect of the chemicalreaction and injection on the flow characteristics in an unsteadyupward motion of an isothermal platerdquo Journal of AppliedMechanics and Technical Physics vol 42 pp 665ndash671 2001
[16] J Anand Rao and S Shivaiah ldquoChemical reaction effectson an unsteady MHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical porous plate with constant suction and heat sourcerdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 7 no 8 pp 98ndash118 2011
[17] K Vajravelu and A Hadjinicolaou ldquoHeat transfer in a viscousfluid over a stretching sheet with viscous dissipation and
internal heat generationrdquo International Communications inHeatand Mass Transfer vol 20 no 3 pp 417ndash430 1993
[18] M M Molla M A Hossain and L S Yao ldquoNatural convectionflow along a vertical wavy surface with uniform surface temper-ature in presence of heat generationabsorptionrdquo InternationalJournal of Thermal Sciences vol 43 no 2 pp 157ndash163 2004
[19] M S Alam M M Rahman and M A Sattar ldquoMHD Freeconvection heat and mass transfer flow past an inclined surfacewith heat generationrdquo Thammasat International Journal ofScience and Technology vol 11 no 4 pp 1ndash8 2006
[20] A J Chamkha ldquoUnsteady MHD convective heat and masstransfer past a semi-infinite vertical permeable moving platewith heat absorptionrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 42 no 2 pp 217ndash230 2004
[21] F M Hady R A Mohamed and A Mahdy ldquoMHD free con-vection flow along a vertical wavy surface with heat generationor absorption effectrdquo International Communications inHeat andMass Transfer vol 33 no 10 pp 1253ndash1263 2006
[22] V Ambethkar ldquoNumerical solutions of heat and mass transfereffects of an unsteadyMHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical plate with constant suction and heat source of sinkrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 5 no 3 pp 96ndash115 2009
[23] S Mohammed Ibrahim and N Bhaskar Reddy ldquoRadiation andmass transfer effects on MHD free convection flow along astretching surfacewith viscous dissipation and heat generationrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 8 no 8 pp 1ndash21 2012
[24] M Q BrewsterThermal Radiative Transfer and Properties JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 1992
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
8 ISRN Computational Mathematics
0 2 4 6 8 10119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015
45
4
35
3
25
2
15
1
05
0
119906
(a)
1
08
06
04
02
00 2 4 6 8 10
119910
119876 = 001 005 01 015120579
(b)
Figure 8 (a) Velocity profiles for different values of 119876 (b) Temperature profiles for different values of 119876
Table 6 Effects of 119870119903on skin-friction 119862
119891and Sherwood number
Sh Reminus1119909
119870119903
119862119891
ShReminus1119909
20 62735 0748750 56402 1117370 54421 13018100 52532 15346
Table 7 Effects of Q on skin-friction 119862119891and Nusselt number
NuReminus1119909
119876 119862119891
NuReminus1119909
001 57173 05577005 59040 0512101 62735 04369015 72641 02863
5 Conclusions
The problem of unsteady two-dimensional laminar freeconvective mass transfer flow of a viscous incompressiblefluid through a highly porous medium past an infinitevertical moving porous plate in the thermal radiation heatgeneration and chemical reaction has been studied Thenondimensional governing equations were solved by pertur-bation technique Numerical results are presented to illustratethe details of the flow and heat transfer characteristics andtheir dependence on the material parameters We observethat the velocity increases as the thermal Grashof numberGr solutal Grashof number Gc permeability of the porousmedium 119870 or heat generation parameter 119876 increases whileit decreases as the Prndtl number Pr radiation parameterR Schmidt number Sc or the chemical reaction parameter119870119903 It is observed that the temperature decreases as the
Prandtl number Pr or radiation parameter 119877 increases whileit increases as the heat generation parameter119876 increasesThe
concentration decreases as the Schmidt number Sc or thechemical reaction parameter119870
119903increases
Appendix
One has
1198981=
Γ + radicΓ2minus 4Γ119876
2
1198982=
Γ + radicΓ2+ 4Γ (119899120582 minus 119876)
2
1198983=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4Sc (119899 + 119870119903)
2
1198984=
Sc + radicSc2 + 4119870119903Sc
2
1198985=
1 + radic1 + 4 (119899 + (1119870))
2
1198986=
1 + radic1 + (4119870)
2
1198601=
minusGr1198982
2minus 1198982minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198602=
minusGc1198982
3minus 1198983minus (119899 + (1119870))
1198603= minus (119860
1+ 1198602)
1198604=
minusGr1198982
1minus 1198981minus (1119870)
1198605=
minusGc1198982
4minus 1198984minus (1119870)
1198606= 119880119901minus (1 + 119860
4+ 1198605)
(A1)
ISRN Computational Mathematics 9
References
[1] M Kaviany Principles of Heat Transfer in a Porous MediaSpriger New York NY USA 2nd edition 1999
[2] K Vajravelu ldquoFlow and heat transfer in a saturated over astretching surfacerdquo Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik undMechanik vol 74 pp 605ndash614 1994
[3] A A Raptis ldquoFlow through a porous medium in the presenceof magnetic fieldrdquo International Journal of Energy Research vol10 no 1 pp 97ndash100 1986
[4] J T Hong C L Tien and M Kaviany ldquoNon-Darcian effectson vertical-plate natural convection in porous media with highporositiesrdquo International Journal of Heat andMass Transfer vol28 no 11 pp 2149ndash2157 1985
[5] C K Chen and C R Lin ldquoNatural convection from anisothermal vertical surface embedded in a thermally stratifiedhigh-porosity mediumrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 33 no 1 pp 131ndash138 1995
[6] B S Jaiswal and V M Soundalgekar ldquoOscillating plate temper-ature effects on a flow past an infinite vertical porous plate withconstant suction and embedded in a porousmediumrdquoHeat andMass Transfer vol 37 no 2-3 pp 125ndash131 2001
[7] P S Hiremath and P M Patil ldquoFree convection effects onthe oscillatory flow of a couple stress fluid through a porousmediumrdquo Acta Mechanica vol 98 no 1ndash4 pp 143ndash158 1993
[8] BCChandrasekhara andPNagaraju ldquoComposite heat transferin the case of a steady laminar flow of a gray fluid with smalloptical density past a horizontal plate embedded in a saturatedporous mediumrdquo Warme- und Stoffubertragung vol 23 no 6pp 343ndash352 1988
[9] K A Yih ldquoRadiation effect on natural convection over avertical cylinder embedded in porous mediardquo InternationalCommunications in Heat and Mass Transfer vol 26 no 2 pp259ndash267 1999
[10] A A Mohammadein and M F El-Amin ldquoThermal radiationeffects on power-law fluids over a horizontal plate embedded ina porous mediumrdquo International Communications in Heat andMass Transfer vol 27 no 7 pp 1025ndash1035 2000
[11] A Raptis ldquoRadiation and flow through a porous mediumrdquoJournal of Porous Media vol 4 no 3 pp 271ndash273 2001
[12] A Raptis and C Perdikis ldquoUnsteady flow through a highlyporous medium in the presence of radiationrdquo Transport inPorous Media vol 57 no 2 pp 171ndash179 2004
[13] P L Chambre and J D Young ldquoOn the diffusion of a chemicallyreactive species in a laminar boundary layer flowrdquo Physics ofFluids vol 1 no 1 pp 48ndash54 1958
[14] U N Das R Deka and V M Soundalgekar ldquoEffects of masstransfer on flowpast an impulsively started infinite vertical platewith constant heat flux and chemical reactionrdquo Forschung imIngenieurwesen vol 60 no 10 pp 284ndash287 1994
[15] R Muthucumarswamy and P Ganesan ldquoEffect of the chemicalreaction and injection on the flow characteristics in an unsteadyupward motion of an isothermal platerdquo Journal of AppliedMechanics and Technical Physics vol 42 pp 665ndash671 2001
[16] J Anand Rao and S Shivaiah ldquoChemical reaction effectson an unsteady MHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical porous plate with constant suction and heat sourcerdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 7 no 8 pp 98ndash118 2011
[17] K Vajravelu and A Hadjinicolaou ldquoHeat transfer in a viscousfluid over a stretching sheet with viscous dissipation and
internal heat generationrdquo International Communications inHeatand Mass Transfer vol 20 no 3 pp 417ndash430 1993
[18] M M Molla M A Hossain and L S Yao ldquoNatural convectionflow along a vertical wavy surface with uniform surface temper-ature in presence of heat generationabsorptionrdquo InternationalJournal of Thermal Sciences vol 43 no 2 pp 157ndash163 2004
[19] M S Alam M M Rahman and M A Sattar ldquoMHD Freeconvection heat and mass transfer flow past an inclined surfacewith heat generationrdquo Thammasat International Journal ofScience and Technology vol 11 no 4 pp 1ndash8 2006
[20] A J Chamkha ldquoUnsteady MHD convective heat and masstransfer past a semi-infinite vertical permeable moving platewith heat absorptionrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 42 no 2 pp 217ndash230 2004
[21] F M Hady R A Mohamed and A Mahdy ldquoMHD free con-vection flow along a vertical wavy surface with heat generationor absorption effectrdquo International Communications inHeat andMass Transfer vol 33 no 10 pp 1253ndash1263 2006
[22] V Ambethkar ldquoNumerical solutions of heat and mass transfereffects of an unsteadyMHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical plate with constant suction and heat source of sinkrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 5 no 3 pp 96ndash115 2009
[23] S Mohammed Ibrahim and N Bhaskar Reddy ldquoRadiation andmass transfer effects on MHD free convection flow along astretching surfacewith viscous dissipation and heat generationrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 8 no 8 pp 1ndash21 2012
[24] M Q BrewsterThermal Radiative Transfer and Properties JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 1992
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[2] K Vajravelu ldquoFlow and heat transfer in a saturated over astretching surfacerdquo Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik undMechanik vol 74 pp 605ndash614 1994
[3] A A Raptis ldquoFlow through a porous medium in the presenceof magnetic fieldrdquo International Journal of Energy Research vol10 no 1 pp 97ndash100 1986
[4] J T Hong C L Tien and M Kaviany ldquoNon-Darcian effectson vertical-plate natural convection in porous media with highporositiesrdquo International Journal of Heat andMass Transfer vol28 no 11 pp 2149ndash2157 1985
[5] C K Chen and C R Lin ldquoNatural convection from anisothermal vertical surface embedded in a thermally stratifiedhigh-porosity mediumrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 33 no 1 pp 131ndash138 1995
[6] B S Jaiswal and V M Soundalgekar ldquoOscillating plate temper-ature effects on a flow past an infinite vertical porous plate withconstant suction and embedded in a porousmediumrdquoHeat andMass Transfer vol 37 no 2-3 pp 125ndash131 2001
[7] P S Hiremath and P M Patil ldquoFree convection effects onthe oscillatory flow of a couple stress fluid through a porousmediumrdquo Acta Mechanica vol 98 no 1ndash4 pp 143ndash158 1993
[8] BCChandrasekhara andPNagaraju ldquoComposite heat transferin the case of a steady laminar flow of a gray fluid with smalloptical density past a horizontal plate embedded in a saturatedporous mediumrdquo Warme- und Stoffubertragung vol 23 no 6pp 343ndash352 1988
[9] K A Yih ldquoRadiation effect on natural convection over avertical cylinder embedded in porous mediardquo InternationalCommunications in Heat and Mass Transfer vol 26 no 2 pp259ndash267 1999
[10] A A Mohammadein and M F El-Amin ldquoThermal radiationeffects on power-law fluids over a horizontal plate embedded ina porous mediumrdquo International Communications in Heat andMass Transfer vol 27 no 7 pp 1025ndash1035 2000
[11] A Raptis ldquoRadiation and flow through a porous mediumrdquoJournal of Porous Media vol 4 no 3 pp 271ndash273 2001
[12] A Raptis and C Perdikis ldquoUnsteady flow through a highlyporous medium in the presence of radiationrdquo Transport inPorous Media vol 57 no 2 pp 171ndash179 2004
[13] P L Chambre and J D Young ldquoOn the diffusion of a chemicallyreactive species in a laminar boundary layer flowrdquo Physics ofFluids vol 1 no 1 pp 48ndash54 1958
[14] U N Das R Deka and V M Soundalgekar ldquoEffects of masstransfer on flowpast an impulsively started infinite vertical platewith constant heat flux and chemical reactionrdquo Forschung imIngenieurwesen vol 60 no 10 pp 284ndash287 1994
[15] R Muthucumarswamy and P Ganesan ldquoEffect of the chemicalreaction and injection on the flow characteristics in an unsteadyupward motion of an isothermal platerdquo Journal of AppliedMechanics and Technical Physics vol 42 pp 665ndash671 2001
[16] J Anand Rao and S Shivaiah ldquoChemical reaction effectson an unsteady MHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical porous plate with constant suction and heat sourcerdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 7 no 8 pp 98ndash118 2011
[17] K Vajravelu and A Hadjinicolaou ldquoHeat transfer in a viscousfluid over a stretching sheet with viscous dissipation and
internal heat generationrdquo International Communications inHeatand Mass Transfer vol 20 no 3 pp 417ndash430 1993
[18] M M Molla M A Hossain and L S Yao ldquoNatural convectionflow along a vertical wavy surface with uniform surface temper-ature in presence of heat generationabsorptionrdquo InternationalJournal of Thermal Sciences vol 43 no 2 pp 157ndash163 2004
[19] M S Alam M M Rahman and M A Sattar ldquoMHD Freeconvection heat and mass transfer flow past an inclined surfacewith heat generationrdquo Thammasat International Journal ofScience and Technology vol 11 no 4 pp 1ndash8 2006
[20] A J Chamkha ldquoUnsteady MHD convective heat and masstransfer past a semi-infinite vertical permeable moving platewith heat absorptionrdquo International Journal of EngineeringScience vol 42 no 2 pp 217ndash230 2004
[21] F M Hady R A Mohamed and A Mahdy ldquoMHD free con-vection flow along a vertical wavy surface with heat generationor absorption effectrdquo International Communications inHeat andMass Transfer vol 33 no 10 pp 1253ndash1263 2006
[22] V Ambethkar ldquoNumerical solutions of heat and mass transfereffects of an unsteadyMHD free convective flow past an infinitevertical plate with constant suction and heat source of sinkrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 5 no 3 pp 96ndash115 2009
[23] S Mohammed Ibrahim and N Bhaskar Reddy ldquoRadiation andmass transfer effects on MHD free convection flow along astretching surfacewith viscous dissipation and heat generationrdquoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanicsvol 8 no 8 pp 1ndash21 2012
[24] M Q BrewsterThermal Radiative Transfer and Properties JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 1992
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of