Effects of Heat and Mass Transfer on MHD Flow of Viscoelastic Micro-Polar Fluid Through A Porous Medium with Heat Source and Chemical Reaction

Volume 7 Issue 4 October - December 2018

Research Paper

Effects of Heat and Mass Transfer on MHD Flow of Viscoelastic Micro-Polar Fluid Through A Porous Medium with Heat Source and Chemical Reaction

Kuppala R. Sekhar*

Assistant Professor, Department of H & S, Vemu Institute of Technology, P. Kothakota, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Sekhar, K. R. (2018). Effects of Heat and Mass Transfer on MHD Flow of Viscoelastic Micro-Polar Fluid Through a Porous Medium with Heat Source and Chemical Reaction, i-manager's Journal on Mathematics, 7(4), 27-38.https://doi.org/10.26634/jmat.7.4.15377

Abstract

The present study investigates heat and mass transfer effects on unsteady flow of a visco-elastic fluid over an infinite moving permeable plate in a saturated porous medium in the presence of a transverse magnetic field with chemical reaction and heat sink are studied. The governing equations are solved analytically by using general perturbation technique to obtain the expressions for velocity, micro-rotation, temperature and concentration. The result shows that the effect of the chemical reaction parameter and heat source parameter increases, with increasing in micro-rotation across the boundary layer while visco-elastic parameter decreases in the vicinity of the plate. With the aid of these, the expressions for skin-friction coefficient, Nusselt number and Sherwood numbers are presented in tabular form.