Dufour and Soret Effects on Convection Heat and Mass Transfer in an Electrical Conducting Power Law Flow over a Heated Porous Plate

In this paper, the influence of thermal and thermo diffusion on convection heat and mass transfer in an electrically conducting power law flow over a heated porous plate in the presence of magnetic field has been considered. The similarity solution is used to transform the system of partial differen...

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Published in:International journal of computational methods in engineering science and mechanics 2013-01, Vol.14 (1), p.32-39
Main Authors: Olanrewaju, P. O., Fenuga, O. J., Gbadeyan, J. A., Okedayo, T. G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Conduction
Dilatant fluid
Dufour and Soret numbers
Heat and mass transfer
Power law fluid
Pseudoplastic fluid
Thermal radiation
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Summary:In this paper, the influence of thermal and thermo diffusion on convection heat and mass transfer in an electrically conducting power law flow over a heated porous plate in the presence of magnetic field has been considered. The similarity solution is used to transform the system of partial differential equations into a boundary value problem of coupled ordinary differential equations. Runge Kutta of sixth order has been used along with a shooting method for better accuracy. The results were presented as velocity, temperature, and concentration fields for pseudoplastic and dilatant fluids for different values of the embedded flow parameters. The results are presented graphically and the conclusion is drawn that the flow field and other quantities of physical interests are significantly influenced by these parameters.
ISSN:1550-2287
1550-2295
DOI:10.1080/15502287.2012.698703