Effect of Chemical Reaction on Convective Heat Transfer of Boundary Layer Flow in Nanofluid over a Wedge with Heat Generation/Absorption and Suction

• Main Authors: R. M. Kasmani, Sivasankaran Sivanandam, Marimuthu Bhuvaneswari, Z. Siri
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Isfahan University of Technology 2016-01-01
• Series: Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics
• Subjects: Heat transfer; Nanofluid; Chemical reaction; Thermophoresis.
• Online Access: http://jafmonline.net/JournalArchive/download?file_ID=38993&issue_ID=224

The aim of the present study is to examine the convective heat transfer of nanofluid past a wedge subject to first-order chemical reaction, heat generation/absorption and suction effects. The influence of wedge angle parameter, thermophoresis, Dufour and Soret type diffusivity are included. The local similarity transformation is applied to convert the governing nonlinear partial differential equations into ordinary differential equations. Shooting method integrated with fourth-order Runge-Kutta method is used to solve the ordinary differential equations. The skin friction, heat and mass transfer rates as well as the effects of various parameters on velocity, temperature and solutal concentration profiles are analyzed. The results indicate that when the chemical reaction parameter increases, the heat transfer coefficient increases while the mass transfer coefficient decreases. The effect of chemical reaction parameter is very important in solutal concentration field compared to velocity and temperature profiles since it decreases the solutal concentration of the nanoparticle.