JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 309 - 340
(August 2019) http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/HM017020309 |
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A NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW OF A JEFFREY FLUID PAST A VERTICAL POROUS PLATE IN THE PRESENCE OF THERMAL RADIATION AND CHEMICAL REACTION
H. Muzara, S. Shateyi and G. T. Marewo
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Abstract: This work deals with the study of the flow of a Jeffrey’s fluid past a vertical porous plate in the presence of thermal radiation and chemical reaction. A similarity transformation is used to transform the partial differential equations governing the flow to a system of coupled linear partial differential equations which are then solved using the bivariate spectral quasilinearization method. The effects of the non-dimensional parameters, namely the Prandtl number, Deborah number, radiation parameter, Schmidt number, chemical reaction parameter and the ratio of relaxation to retardation times on the fluid velocity, temperature and concentration are investigated. Also investigated is the influence of some of the mentioned parameters on the local skin friction, heat transfer rate and mass transfer rate. |
Keywords and phrases: Jeffrey model, non-Newtonian fluid, spectral collocation, bivariate spectral quasi-linearization, chemical reaction, thermal radiation, porous medium, heat transfer, mass transfer.
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