Effects of mass transfer on MHD flow of casson fluid with chemical reaction and suction

Effect of mass transfer in the magnetohydrodynamic flow of a Casson fluid over a porous stretching sheet is addressed in the presence of a chemical reaction. A series solution for the resulting nonlinear flow is computed. The skin friction coefficient and local Sherwood number are analyzed through numerical values for various parameters of interest. The velocity and concentration fields are illustrated for several pertinent flow parameters. We observed that the Casson parameter and Hartman number have similar effects on the velocity in a qualitative sense. We further analyzed that the concentration profile decreases rapidly in comparison to the fluid velocity when we increased the values of the suction parameter.

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Main Authors: Shehzad,S. A., Hayat,T., Qasim,M., Asghar,S.
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Brazilian Society of Chemical Engineering 2013
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-66322013000100020
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