MHD Flow and Mass Transfer of a Chemically Reactive Upper Convected Maxwell (UCM) Fluid Past a Porous Surface

K.Vajravelu; K.V.Prasad; A.Sujatha; Chiu-on NG

doi:10.3879/j.issn.1000-0887.2012.07.005

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K.Vajravelu, K.V.Prasad, A.Sujatha, Chiu-on NG. MHD Flow and Mass Transfer of a Chemically Reactive Upper Convected Maxwell (UCM) Fluid Past a Porous Surface[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2012, 33(7): 845-855. doi: 10.3879/j.issn.1000-0887.2012.07.005

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MHD Flow and Mass Transfer of a Chemically Reactive Upper Convected Maxwell (UCM) Fluid Past a Porous Surface

doi: 10.3879/j.issn.1000-0887.2012.07.005

¹Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA;²Department of Mathematics, Bangalore University, Central College Campus, Bangalore 560-001, India;³Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, P.R.China

Received Date: 2011-07-18
Rev Recd Date: 2012-01-23
Publish Date: 2012-07-15

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Abstract

The MHD flow and mass transfer of an electrically conducting upper convected Maxwell fluid at a porous surface in the presence of a chemically reactive species was studied. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations along with the appropriate boundary conditions were transformed into nonlinear ordinary differential equations, and were solved numerically by the Keller-Box method. The effects of various physical parameters on the flow and mass transfer characteristics were presented graphically 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.
- chemically reactive species,
- upper convected Maxwell fluid,
- MHD flow,
- mass transfer,
- KellerBox method

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