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Universal Journal of Applied Mathematics Vol. 1(3), pp. 160 - 165
DOI: 10.13189/ujam.2013.010302
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A Computational Analysis of the Effect of Mass and Radiative Heat Transfer on Free Convective Boundary Layer Flow over a Vertical Plate
Aiyesimi Y.M 1, Abah S.O. 2,*, Okedayo G.T. 3
1 Department of Mathematics, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria
2 Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna, Nigeria
3 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
The effects of mass and radiative heat transfer on free convective flow of a viscous incompressible optically thick fluid towards a vertical surface have been investigated. The nonlinear non-dimensional, similarity-transformed boundary-layer equations governing the problem are solved using an efficient numerical method based on the Runge-Kutta integration scheme and shooting iteration technique. Numerical calculations were carried out for different values of the various non-dimensional quantities governing the flow regime. The analysis shows that the temperature decreases with increasing radiation parameter, N while an increase in the Prandtl number leads to a corresponding decrease in the temperature profile; a rise in the thermal Grasshof and the mass transfer number leads to increase in the velocity profile and a rise in the Schmidt number Sc leads to a decrease in the concentration profile.
KEYWORDS
Radiative Heat Transfer, Free Convective Flow, Boundary Layer
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Aiyesimi Y.M , Abah S.O. , Okedayo G.T. , "A Computational Analysis of the Effect of Mass and Radiative Heat Transfer on Free Convective Boundary Layer Flow over a Vertical Plate," Universal Journal of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 160 - 165, 2013. DOI: 10.13189/ujam.2013.010302.
(b). APA Format:
Aiyesimi Y.M , Abah S.O. , Okedayo G.T. (2013). A Computational Analysis of the Effect of Mass and Radiative Heat Transfer on Free Convective Boundary Layer Flow over a Vertical Plate. Universal Journal of Applied Mathematics, 1(3), 160 - 165. DOI: 10.13189/ujam.2013.010302.