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MHD flow and mass transfer of chemically reactive upper convected Maxwell fluid past porous surface
Received date: 2011-07-18
Revised date: 2012-01-23
Online published: 2012-07-10
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Project supported by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China (No.HKU 715510E)
The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow and mass transfer of an electrically conducting upper convected Maxwell (UCM) fluid at a porous surface are studied in the presence of a chemically reactive species. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations along with the appropriate boundary conditions are transformed into nonlinear ordinary differential equations and numerically solved by the Keller-box method. The effects of various physical parameters on the flow and mass transfer characteristics are graphically presented and discussed. It is observed that the order of the chemical reaction is to increase the thickness of the diffusion boundary layer. Also, the mass transfer rate strongly depends on the Schmidt number and the reaction rate parameter. Furthermore, available results in the literature are obtained as a special case.
K. VAJRAVELU;K. V. PRASAD;A. SUJATHA;Chiu-on NG . MHD flow and mass transfer of chemically reactive upper convected Maxwell fluid past porous surface[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2012 , 33(7) : 899 -910 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-012-1593-8
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