Radiation and thermal diffusion effect on a steady MHD free convection heat and mass transfer flow past an inclined stretching sheet with Hall current and heat generation

Abstract

In the present paper is an investigation of steady MHD free convection, heat and mass transfer flow of an incompressible electrically conducting fluid past an inclined stretching sheet under the influence of an applied uniform magnetic field with Hall current and radiation effect. Using suitable similarity transformations the governing fundamental boundary layer equations are transformed to a system of non-linear similar ordinary differential equations for momentum, thermal energy and concentration equations which are then solved numerically by the shooting method along with Runge- Kutta fourth-fifth order integration scheme. The results presented graphically illustrate that primary velocity field decrease due to increase of magnetic parameter, Angle of inclination, Dufour number, Prandtl number, Heat generation and Soret number while secondary velocity also decrease for Hall parameter . Other parameters increase the velocities of the fluid flow. Temperature field increases in the presence of Dufour number, heat generation, Schmidt number, Magnetic parameter, Grashof number & Modified Grashof number and decreases for other parameters. Also, concentration profiles decreases for increasing the values of Dufour number, Schmidt number, Heat generation, Soret number, Grashof number & Modified Grashof number but concentration increases for other parameters. The numerical results concerned with the primary velocity, secondary velocity, temperature and concentration profiles effects of various parameters on the flow fields are investigated and presented graphically. Also the skin friction coefficient, the local Nusselt number and the local Sherwood number are presented in Tables 1-3.