Flow and mass transfer on a stretching sheet with a magnetic field and chemically reactive species

Takhar, HS and Chamkha, AJ and Nath, G (2000) Flow and mass transfer on a stretching sheet with a magnetic field and chemically reactive species. In: International Journal of Engineering Science, 38 (12). pp. 1303-1314.

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Abstract

An analysis has been carried out to obtain the flow and mass transfer characteristics of a viscous electrically conducting fluid on a continuously stretching surface with non-zero slot velocity. The motion is caused solely by the stretching surface which introduces non-similarity in the velocity and concentration fields. The partial differential equations governing the boundary layer flow and mass transfer are solved by using an implicit finite-difference scheme. The magnetic field significantly increases the surface skin friction, but slightly reduces the surface mass transfer. The surface mass transfer strongly depends on the Schmidt number and the reaction rate and it increases with their increasing values. The surface mass transfer for the first-order reaction is more than that for the second- or-third-order reaction.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	International Journal of Engineering Science
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:48
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/15238

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