Soret and Dufour effects on natural convection heat and mass transfer near a vertical wavy cone in a porous medium with constant wall temperature and concentration

Abstract

This work studies the heat and mass transfer characteristics of natural convection near a vertical wavy cone in a fluid saturated porous medium with Soret and Dufour effects. The surface of the wavy cone is kept at constant temperature and concentration. The governing equations are transformed into a set of coupled differential equations, and the obtained boundary layer equations are solved by the cubic spline collocation method. The heat and mass transfer characteristics are presented as functions of Soret parameter, Dufour parameter, half angle of the cone, Lewis number, buoyancy ratio, and dimensionless amplitude. Results show that an increase in the Dufour parameter tends to decrease the local Nusselt number, and an increase in the Soret parameter tends to decrease the local Sherwood number. Moreover, a greater half angle of the cone leads to a greater fluctuation of the local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers with the streamwise coordinates.