Mixed convection heat and mass transfer over a vertical plate in a power-law fluid-saturated porous medium with radiation and chemical reaction effects

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 485-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Srinivasacharya ◽  
G. Swamy Reddy
2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Srinivasacharya ◽  
Swamy Reddy

Mixed convection heat and mass transfer along a vertical plate embedded in a power-law fluid saturated Darcy porous medium with Soret and Dufour effects is studied. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations and then solved numerically using shooting method. The effect of Soret and Dufour parameters, power law index and mixed convection parameter on non-dimensional velocity, temperature and concentration fields are discussed. The variation of different parameters on heat and mass transfer rates is presented in tabular form.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Srinivasacharya ◽  
O. Surender

This paper presents the nonsimilarity solutions for mixed convection heat and mass transfer along a semi-infinite vertical plate embedded in a doubly stratified fluid saturated porous medium in the presence of Soret and Dufour effects. The flow in the porous medium is described by employing the Darcy-Forchheimer based model. The nonlinear governing equations and their associated boundary conditions are initially cast into dimensionless forms and then solved numerically. The influence of pertinent parameters on dimensionless velocity, temperature, concentration, heat, and mass transfer in terms of the local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers is discussed and presented graphically.


2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Kairi ◽  
P. V. S. N. Murthy

In this paper, we investigate the influence of melting on mixed convection heat and mass transfer from vertical flat plate in a non-Newtonian fluid-saturated non-Darcy porous medium including the prominent Soret effect. The wall and the ambient medium are maintained at constant but different levels of temperature and concentration such that the heat and mass transfer occurs from the wall to the medium. The Ostwald–de Waele power law model is used to characterize the non-Newtonian fluid behavior. A similarity solution for the transformed governing equations is obtained. The numerical computation is carried out for various values of the nondimensional physical parameters. The variation of temperature, concentration, and heat and mass transfer coefficients with the power law index, mixed convection parameter, inertia parameter, melting parameter, Soret number, buoyancy ratio, and Lewis number is discussed for a wide range of values of these parameters.


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