M.D. Shamshuddin^a,*, A.J. Chamkha^b,c, Thirupathi Thumma^d, M.C. Raju^e

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-15, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.15

Abstract In the current paper, a finite element computational solution is conducted for MHD double diffusive flow characterizing dissipative micropolar mixed convective heat and mass transfer adjacent to a vertical porous plate embedded in a saturated porous medium. The micropolar fluid is also chemically reacting, both Soret and Dufour effects and also heat absorption included. The governing partial differential equations for momentum, heat, angular momentum and species conservation are transformed into dimensionless form under the assumption of low Reynolds number with appropriate dimensionless quantities. The emerging boundary value problem is then solved numerically with an efficient computational finite element method employing… More >

Nasreen Bano^∗,† , B. B. Singh, S. R. Sayyed

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-9, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.14

Abstract The present study deals with the two dimensional steady laminar forced MHD Hiemenz flow past a flat plate in a porous medium. The effects of thermal radiation and partial slips on the flow field have been investigated under the variable wall temperature condition of the plate. The governing equations have been transformed into a set of coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by using suitable similarity transformations. These equations have been solved analytically by using homotopy analysis method (HAM). The effects of Prandtl number, suction/blowing parameter, permeability parameter, velocity slip parameter, radiation parameter, magnetic parameter, wall temperature exponent and thermal… More >

P. Bala Anki Reddy^a,*, S. Suneetha^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-9, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.7

Abstract This work concentrates on the effects of homogeneous-heterogeneous chemical reactions on MHD boundary layer flow of Casson fluid over a stretching surface. Cattaneo-Christov heat flux model is considered instead of classical Fourier’s law to explore the heat transfer phenomena. Appropriate similarity transformations are used to convert the governing partial differential equations into a system of coupled non-linear differential equations. The resulting coupled non-linear differential equations are solved numerically by using the fourth order Runge-Kutta method with shooting technique. The impact of significant parameters on velocity, temperature, concentration, skin friction coefficient and the Nusselt number are presented graphically and in tabular… More >

Thirupathi Thumma^a,*, M.D. Shamshuddin^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-12, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.5

Abstract This paper numerically investigates the magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer convective flow of an electrically conducting fluid in the presence of buoyancy ratio, heat source, variable magnetic field and radiation over an inclined nonlinear stretching sheet under convective surface boundary conditions. The Rosseland approximation is adopted for thermal radiation effects and the non-uniform magnetic field applied in a transverse direction to the flow. The coupled nonlinear momentum, thermal and species concentration governing boundary layer equations are rendered into a system of third order momentum and second order energy and mass diffusion ordinary differential equations via similarity transformations with appropriate boundary conditions. The… More >

S. Palaniammal¹ , K. Saritha^2,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-10, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.1

Abstract This paper investigates heat and mass transfer of a MHD Casson fluid over a permeable stretching surface in the presence of a temperature gradient heat sink. The effects of viscous dissipation, thermal radiation and chemical reaction are also taken into the consideration. The relevant similarity transformations are used to reduce the governing equations into a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations and then solved analytically. The influence of various physical parameters on the velocity, temperature, concentration, skin friction coefficient, Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are investigated. The numerical results of skin friction factor, Nusselt and Sherwood number are compared with the… More >

E. Kumaresan^a , A .G. Vijaya Kumar^a,*, J. Prakash^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-9, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.2

Abstract The objective of this study is to investigate diffusion-thermo and radiation effects on unsteady free convection chemically reacting fluid flow past an accelerated infinite plate with variable temperature and mass diffusion under the influence of uniform transverse magnetic field when the magnetic lines of force are fixed relative to the fluid or to the plate. . Two important cases, when the magnetic lines of force are being fixed relative to the fluid (K=0) or to the moving plate (K=1) have been considered. A general exact solution of the dimensionless governing partial differential equations is obtained by Laplace transform technique without… More >

Sanjib Sengupta^a,*, Amrit Karmakar^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-13, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.30

Abstract In this paper an analysis on heat and mass transfer is made to study magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mixed convective flow of an incompressible viscous fluid flowing past an inclined plate. A magnetic field of uniform strength is applied to the plate to influence the flow. Due to weak voltage differences caused by the very low polarization charges, the influence of electric field is considered to be neglected. Again large temperature gradient ensures cross diffusion effect like thermo-diffusion (Soret) in the field. The governed set of non-linear partial differential equations is solved by developing a multi-parameter asymptotic perturbation scheme. The influence of… More >

G. Dharmaiah^a,†, N. Vedavathi^b , CH. Baby Rani^c , K.S. Balamurugan^d

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-7, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.14

Abstract The time-dependent flow past an impulsively started vertical infinite plate in a viscous electrically conducting natural convective incompressible Nano-fluid is considered in this article by taking into account the effects of heat absorption, heat generation and radiation. An analytical study is performed to obtain exact solutions for water-based Nano-fluid TiO₂. The dimensionless governing equations for this investigation are solved analytically by using the small perturbation Technique. The effects of various physical parameters on velocity, temperature fields are presented graphically. With the aid of these, the expression for the skin-friction and Nusselt number profiles was done with the help of tables. More >

R. Biswas^a , M. Afikuzzaman^b,*, M. Mondal^a , S.F. Ahmmed^a

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-10, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.13

Abstract Present study concerns with the numerical investigation of the MHD free convection and heat transfer fluid flow through a semi-infinite vertical porous plate with the effects of chemical reaction. A boundary layer approximation is premeditated to develop a flow model representing time dependent momentum, energy and concentration equations. The governing model equations are governed as a form of coupled nonlinear dimensionless system of partial differential equations (PDEs) by the as usual mathematical procedure of mathematical transformation and which model equations are solved by using explicit finite difference method (EFDM). Then the numerical results have been calculated by Compaq Visual FORTRAN… More >

G. Dharmaiah^a,* , CH. Baby Rani^b , N. Vedavathi^c , K.S. Balamurugan^d

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-8, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.6

Abstract Analytical investigation is carried out to analyze the unsteady, two-dimensional, laminar, boundary layer flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting and heat absorbing fluid along a semi-infinite vertical permeable moving plate in the presence of Diffusion-thermo and radiation absorption effects. The set of ordinary differential equations are solved by using perturbation technique. The effects of the various fluid flow parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration fields with in the boundary layer have been analyzed with the help of graphs. Numerical values of local skin-friction coefficient, nusselt number and Sherwood number are tabulated. More >