Convection Heat and Mass Transfer in an Electrical Conducting Power Law Flow over a Heated Vertical Porous Plate

ISSN： 1550-2287

Source： International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mech, Vol.11, Iss.2, 2010-03, pp. : 100-108

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Abstract

This paper investigates convection heat and mass transfer flow in an electrically conducting power law fluid past a vertical porous plate in presence of a transverse magnetic field, thermal radiation, and thermal diffusion. The non-linear partial differential equations governing the flow are transformed into ordinary differential equations using the usual similarity method and the resulting similarity equations are solved numerically using Runge - Kutta shooting method. The results are presented as velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles for pseudoplastic and dilatant fluids and for different values of parameters governing the problem. The effects of magnetic field, thermal radiation, and thermal diffusion on the skin friction, heat transfer, and mass transfer rates are presented numerically in tabular form.