Radiation and mass transfer effects on unsteady MHD convective flow past an infinite vertical plate with Dufour and Soret effects》.pdf

Ain Shams Engineering Journal (2015) 6, 363–371 Ain Shams University Ain Shams Engineering Journal /locate/asej ENGINEERING PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS Radiation and mass transfer effects on unsteady MHD convective flow past an infinite vertical plate with Dufour and Soret effects N. Vedavathi a, K. Ramakrishna b, K. Jayarami Reddy a,* a Department of Mathematics, K.L. University, Guntur-522502, AP, India b Department of Mechanical Engineering, K.L. University, Guntur-522502, AP, India Received 24 May 2014; revised 19 August 2014; accepted 16 September 2014 Available online 16 October 2014 KEYWORDS Abstract This paper deals with the effects of heat and mass transfer on two-dimensional unsteady Free convection; MHD free convection flow past a vertical porous plate in a porous medium in the presence of ther- MHD; mal radiation under the influence of Dufour and Soret effects. The governing nonlinear partial dif- Thermal radiation; ferential equations have been reduced to the coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations by Porous medium; the similarity transformations. The resulting equations are then solved numerically using shooting Dufour and Soret numbers method along with Runge–Kutta fourth order integration scheme. The numerical results are dis- played graphically showing the effects of various parameters entering into the problem. Finally, the local values of the skin-friction coefficient, Nusselt number and Sherwood number are also