Effect of chemical reaction on heat and mass transfer by mixed convection flow of casson fluid about a sphere with partial slip

S. M.M. El-Kabeir, E. R. El-Zahar, A. M. Rashad

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Abstract

In the present study, the effect of chemical reaction on coupled heat and mass transfer by mixed convection boundary-layer flow of Casson non-Newtonian fluid about a solid sphere has been investigated in the presence of hydrodynamic, thermal and solutal slip conditions is analyzed. The governing partial differential equations are normalized into non-similar equations with appropriate dimensionless variables and solved numerically by an efficient implicit iterative tri-diagonal finitedifference method. Comparisons with known numerical results are performed and the results are observed to be in excellent agreement. The effects various physical parameters are conducted and a representative set of numerical results for the velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles as well as the local skin-friction coefficient, local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers is represented graphically to show interesting features of the solutions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5218-5226
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience
Volume13
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2016

Keywords

  • Casson fluid
  • Chemical reaction
  • Heat and mass transfer
  • Mixed convection
  • Solid sphere

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