CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER ANALYSIS NEAR A MOVING INFINITE VERTICAL POROUS PLATE WITH NEWTONIAN HEATING

The free convection flow due to heat and mass transfer along an impulsively started vertical porous plate has numerous applications in engineering and technology. For example, water filtration in agriculture engineering, distillation, oil cracking, in nuclear reactors, ionization of liquids, etc....

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Main Author: ,, MUHAMMAD KAMRAN
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/21237/1/2014-F~1.PDF
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Language: English
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Summary:The free convection flow due to heat and mass transfer along an impulsively started vertical porous plate has numerous applications in engineering and technology. For example, water filtration in agriculture engineering, distillation, oil cracking, in nuclear reactors, ionization of liquids, etc. In this thesis, the free convection heat and mass transfer flow past an impulsively started infinite vertical porous plate with Newtonian heating is studied. Different physical effects such as heat generation, viscous dissipation, magnetic field, thermal radiation, chemical reaction, Soret and Dufour effects have been examined in this research. The governing non-linear boundary layer equations are transformed to non-dimensional ordinary differential equations by using suitable dimensioniess variables. The non-linear problems are then solved by Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM). HAM solution results are found to be in excellent agreement with the exact solution results for limiting case. The velocity, temperature and concentration profiles as well as skin friction, rate of heat and mass transfer are analyzed through graphs and tables.