Abstract
Conjugate effects heat and mass transfer on free convection flow across an isothermal sphere immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid in the presence of species concentration with radiation heat loss has been investigated in this paper. The governing boundary layer equations are first transformed into a non-dimensional form and the resulting nonlinear systems of partial differential equations are then solved numerically using Finite—difference method with Keller-box Scheme. We have focused our attention on the evaluation velocity profiles, temperature profiles and species concentration profiles of the fluid as well as the local skin friction coefficient, local heat transfer rate and local species concentration transfer rate for a wide range of radiation parameter Rd, Schmidt number Sc and Prandlt number Pr.
Highlights
Conjugate effects heat and mass transfer on free convection flow across an isothermal sphere immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid in the presence of species concentration with radiation heat loss has been investigated in this paper
We have focused our attention on the evaluation velocity profiles, temperature profiles and species concentration profiles of the fluid as well as the local skin friction coefficient, local heat transfer rate and local species concentration transfer rate for a wide range of radiation parameter Rd, Schmidt number Sc and Prandlt number Pr
Convection is the mode of energy transfer between a solid surface and the adjacent liquid or gas that is in motion and it involves the combined effects of conduction and fluid motion
Summary
Convection is the mode of energy transfer between a solid surface and the adjacent liquid or gas that is in motion and it involves the combined effects of conduction and fluid motion. Some of the interesting problems that have been studied are mass transfer from droplets, free convection on electrolysis in non-isothermal boundary layer. Hye et al [18] have considered conjugate effects of heat and mass transfer on natural convection flow across an isothermal circular cylinder in presence of chemical reaction. In the present study the focus is given on the effects of heat and mass transfer on the natural convection boundary layer flow across a sphere with radiation heat loss when the sphere is at a uniform temperature and a uniform mass diffusion. Some results for Skin friction coefficient, rate of heat transfer and rate of species concentration for different values of Schmidt number Sc has been presented in tabular form as well
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