Radiation effects on unsteady MHD convective heat and mass transfer past a vertical plate with chemical reaction and viscous dissipation》.pdf

Alexandria Engineering Journal (2015) 54, 661–671 HO ST E D BY Alexandria University Alexandria Engineering Journal /locate/aej ORIGINAL ARTICLE Radiation effects on unsteady MHD convective heat and mass transfer past a vertical plate with chemical reaction and viscous dissipation Chandra Shekar Balla *, Kishan Naikoti Department of Mathematics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India Received 2 November 2014; revised 16 April 2015; accepted 28 April 2015 Available online 8 June 2015 KEYWORDS Abstract A numerical analysis is performed to study the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic convec- Finite element method; tive flow of heat and mass transfer of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting Newtonian MHD; fluid along a vertical permeable plate in the presence of a homogeneous first order chemical reaction Chemical reaction; and taking into account thermal radiation effects. The porous plate was subjected to a constant suc- Radiation; tion velocity with variable surface temperature and concentration. The governing coupled non- Viscous dissipation; linear boundary layer partial differential equations were solved by an efficient and unconditionally Vertical plate stable finite element method based on Galerkin weighted residual approach. A representative set of computational results for the velocity, temperature and concentration profiles as well as Local skin- friction coefficient, Local Nusselt number and Local Sherwood number are p