Unsteady Magnetohydrodynamic Casson fluid flow over a vertical cone and flat plate with non-uniform heat source/sink
- 31 December 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Trans Tech Publications, Ltd. in International Journal of Engineering Research in Africa
- Vol. 21, 69-83
- https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/JERA.21.69
Abstract
The present study focuses the effects of double dispersion, non-uniform heat source/sink and higher order chemical reaction on unsteady, free convective, MHD Casson fluid flow over a vertical cone and flat plate saturated with porous medium. The extensively validated and unconditionally stable numerical solutions are obtained for the governing equations of two dimensional boundary layer flow by using the finite difference scheme of Crank-Nicolson type. The behavior of velocity, temperature and concentration distributions for various controlling parameters of this problem are graphically illustrated and discussed in detail. The average skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number for sundry parameters are presented in tables. Results indicate that an increase in Casson fluid parameter is found to decelerate fluid flow by increasing the plastic dynamic viscosity whereas it enhances the shear stress in the flow regime. The temperature-dependent heat source/sink plays a vital role on controlling the heat transfer however the surface-dependent heat source/sink also has notable influence on the heat transfer characteristics. It is to be noted that higher order chemical reaction has the tendency to dilute the influence of chemical reaction parameter on the species concentration.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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