Abstract
A local similarity solution of unsteady MHD natural convection heat and mass transfer boundary layer flow past a flat porous plate within the presence of thermal radiation is investigated. The effects of exothermic and endothermic chemical reactions with Arrhenius activation energy on the velocity, temperature, and concentration are also studied in this paper. The governing partial differential equations are reduced to ordinary differential equations by introducing locally similarity transformation (Maleque (2010)). Numerical solutions to the reduced nonlinear similarity equations are then obtained by adopting Runge-Kutta and shooting methods using the Nachtsheim-Swigert iteration technique. The results of the numerical solution are obtained for both steady and unsteady cases then presented graphically in the form of velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles. Comparison has been made for steady flow () and shows excellent agreement with Bestman (1990), hence encouragement for the use of the present computations.
Highlights
In free convection boundary layer flows with simultaneous heat mass transfer, one important criteria that is generally not encountered is the species chemical reactions with finite Arrhenius activation energy
We investigate a numerical solution of unsteady Mhd natural convection heat and mass transfer boundary layer flow past a flat porous plate taking into account the effect of Arrhenius activation energy with exothermic/endothermic chemical reactions and thermal radiation
It is observed from this figure that for exothermic reaction the mass boundary layer is close to the plate other than endothermic reaction
Summary
In free convection boundary layer flows with simultaneous heat mass transfer, one important criteria that is generally not encountered is the species chemical reactions with finite Arrhenius activation energy. Makinde et al [12, 13] studied the problems of unsteady convection with chemical reaction and radiative heat transfer past a flat porous plate moving through a binary mixture in an optically thin environment. We investigate a numerical solution of unsteady Mhd natural convection heat and mass transfer boundary layer flow past a flat porous plate taking into account the effect of Arrhenius activation energy with exothermic/endothermic chemical reactions and thermal radiation. This problem is an extension work studied by Abdul Maleque [16]
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