Magnetic Field and Thermal Radiation Effect on Heat and Mass Transfer of Air Flow near a Moving Infinite Plate with a Constant Heat Sink

S. M. Arifuzzaman^1*, Sajal Kumar Dhali², Md. Abul Kalam Azad¹, Bibhuti Roy¹

¹Mathematics Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh.
²Computer Science and Engineering Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh.

DOI: 10.4236/wjm.2015.512022                

Abstract

Analytical investigation on a combined heat and mass transfer of air flow near a continuously moving infinite plate with a constant heat sink is performed in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. To observe the thermal radiation and Soret effect on the flow, thermal radiation and thermal diffusion term are added in energy and concentration equations. A flow of model is established by employing the well known boundary layer approximations. In order to obtain non-dimensional system of equations, a similarity transformation is applied on the flow model. Perturbation technique is used as main tool for the analytical approach. The numerical values of flow variables are computed by a FORTRAN program. The obtain numerical values of fluid velocity, temperature and species concentration are drawn for the different values of various parameters. To observe the effects of various parameters on the flow variables, the results are discussed in detailed with the help of graph.

Keywords

Viscous Fluid, MHD, Thermal Radiation, Heat Sink, Chemical Reaction, Soret Effects

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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