Effects of Thermal Radiation and Radiation Absorption on Flow Past an Impulsively Started Infinite Vertical Plate with Newtonian Heating and Chemical Reaction

Swetha Ravi¹, Jagdish Prakash^2*, Viswanatha Reddy Gottam³, Vijaya Kumar Varma Sibyala³

¹Department of Mathematics, Gudlavalleru Engineering College, Gudlavalleru, India.
²Department of Mathematics, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.
³Department of Mathematics, S. V. University, Tirupati, India.

DOI: 10.4236/ojfd.2015.54036                

Abstract

A perfect solution to the present natural convective flow problem of a vertical transfinite plate owing to the impulsive motion in the ubiety of first ordered chemical reaction, radiation absorption, radiation, Newtonian heating and species concentration in its plane is evolved by applying the method of Laplace transforms in closed form at the plate. Exact results for velocity, temperature, concentration fields are prevailed and expressions for heat and mass transfer rates are also found. The effects are analyzed for the respective invariables for both ammonia and water vapor.

Keywords

Newtonian Heating, Natural Convection, Chemical Reaction, Incompressible Fluid, Radiation Absorption and Radiation

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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