A NEW CLASS OF SIMILARITY SOLUTIONS OF AN UNSTEADY ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING FREE-FORCED CONVECTIVE FLOW IN A VERTICAL POROUS SURFACE WITH DUFOUR AND SORET EFFECTS

Abstract

The 2-D unsteady magnetohydrodynamic free-forced convective boundary layer flow of a viscous incompressible fluid is studied numerically taking into account heat and mass transfer. The fluid is subjected to uniform heat and mass fluxes embedded in a porous medium by the presence of coupled Dufour and Soret effects. A new class of similarity equations has been obtained by introducing a time-dependent length scale and a corresponding similarity variable. The resulting equations are then integrated numerically using the Nachtsheim-Swigert shooting iteration technique along with the sixth-order Runge-Kutta integration scheme. By developing locally similar solutions of the fluid flow, the behavior of the velocity, temperature, and concentration fields as well as the rate of heat transfer, wall temperature gradient, rate of mass transfer, and skin friction coefficient have been investigated. The effects of Grashof number (Gr), modified Grashof number (Gm), combined effects of the porous and magnetic parameter (S), suction/injection parameter Fw, Brinkman number (Br), Soret number (Sr), and Dufour number (Df) have been observed on the flow field and discussed.