Unsteady hydromagnetic chemically reacting mixed convection MHD flow over a permeable stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium with thermal radiation and heat source/sink

• Main Author: Machaba, Mashudu Innocent
• Other Authors: Shateyi, Stanford
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); Chemically reacting; Mixed convection; Stretching sheet; Porous medium; Thermal radiation; Heat source/sink; 538.6; Magnetohydrodynamics; Fluid dynamics; Dynamo theory (Cosmic physics); Plasma dynamics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1124

MSc (Mathematics) === Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics === The unsteady hydromagnetic chemically reacting mixed convection MHD ow over a permeable stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium with thermal radiation and heat source/sink is investigated numerically. The original partial di erential equations are converted into ordinary di erential equations by using similarity transformation. The governing non-linear partial di erential equations of Momentum, Energy, and Concentration are considered in this study. The e ects of various physical parameters on the velocity, temperature, and species concentration have been discussed. The parameters include the Prandtl number (Pr), Magnetic parameter (M), the Schmidt number (Sc), Unsteady parameter (A), buoyancy forces ratio parameter (N), Chemical reaction (K), Radiation parameter (Nr), Eckert number (Ec), local heat source/sink parameter (Q) and buoyancy parameter due to temperature ( ). The coe cient of Skin friction and Heat transfer are investigated. The coupled non-linear partial di erential equations governing the ow eld have been solved numerically using the Spectral Relaxation Method (SRM). The results that are obtained in this study are then presented in tabular forms and on graphs and the observations are discussed. === NRF