Heat and Mass Transfer Flow Past a Vertical Porous Plate in the Presence of Radiation

Abstract

An analysis is made on the three dimensional mixed convection and mass transfer flow past a vertical porous plate in the presence of radiation with uniform free stream velocity. The solutions have been obtained for the velocity, temperature and concentration fields, shear stresses, rate of heat transfer and mass transfer using perturbation technique. It is found that the primary velocity decrease with the increase of both radiation parameter and Schmidt number but increase with the increase of Grashoff number as well as mass Grashoff number. The temperature distribution decrease with the increase of both radiation parameter and Reynolds number. The Concentration field also decrease with the increase of both Schmidt number as well as Reynolds number. The shear stresses, the rate of heat transfer and mass transfer which are of physical interest are presented in the form of tables