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Abstract
This study examines the simultaneous effects of heat and mass transfer on the three-dimensional boundary layer flow of viscous fluid between two infinite parallel plates. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and thermal radiation effects are present. The governing problems are first modeled and then solved by homotopy analysis method (HAM). Influence of several embedded parameters on the velocity, concentration and temperature fields are described.
Citation: Hayat T, Awais M, Alsaedi A, Safdar A (2014) On Computations for Thermal Radiation in MHD Channel Flow with Heat and Mass Transfer. PLoS ONE 9(1): e86695. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086695
Editor: Yinping Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Received: September 18, 2013; Accepted: December 12, 2013; Published: January 30, 2014
Copyright: © 2014 Hayat et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: The research of Dr. Alsaedi was partially supported by Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. No addition external funding was received for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Introduction
The boundary layer flows in the presence of heat and mass transfer are important in the metallurgical processes involving the cooling of continuous strips. At present this topic has been studied extensively via different flow configurations and assumptions. Few representative investigations in this direction can be found in the refs. [1]–[5] In all these studies the research has been carried out for flows induced by moving surface in semi-infinite expanse of fluid. Very little is said about such flows in the bounded domains. Dinarvand and Rashidi [6] examined a reliable treatment of homotopy solution for two-dimensional viscous flow in a rectangular domain by considering two moving porous walls. Axisymmetric finite element solution of non-isothermal parallel-plate flow has been presented by Zhang and Olagunju [7]. Martinez et al. [8] discussed the viscous flow in a curved channel with flexible moving porous walls. Bifurcation of multimode flows of viscous fluid in a plane diverging channel is examined by Akulenko and Kumakshev [9]. Mahmood and Asif [10] studied generalized three-dimensional channel flow due to uniform stretching of plate. Recently, an incompressible moving boundary flows with the finite volume particle method has been examined by Nestor and Quinlan [11].
To our information, the MHD channel flow due to stretching surfaces with heat and mass transfer is not investigated yet in presence of thermal radiation. Needless to say that mass transfer is involved in the net movement of mass from one locality to another in the system and has abundant applications in chemical engineering. Specific applications include evaporation of water, the diffusion of chemical contamination, separation of chemicals in distillation procedure etc. For separation processes, thermodynamics determines the amount of separation, while mass transfer determines the rate at which the separation is possible. Further the heat transfer is a process that concerns with the exchange of thermal energy from one physical system to another. The radiation effects are prominent in any transparent medium for instance solid or fluid, but may also even occur across vacuum in the form of electromagnetic rays. The purpose of current investigation is to examine the simultaneous effects of heat and mass transfer on the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) three-dimensional channel flow of viscous fluid in the presence of thermal radiation. Section 2 includes the mathematical formulation and analysis with graphical results whereas section 3 includes the concluding remarks.
Mathematical Formulation
Three-dimensional flow of an incompressible viscous fluid bounded by two infinite parallel plates (separated by distance is considered here. The motion in fluid is due to equal and opposite forces along the x- and y-axes so that the plate is stretched in both directions keeping the origin fixed. The lower plate is a highly elastic membrane situated at
and the upper plate is uniformly subjected to constant injection in the channel fixed at
. A constant magnetic field of strength
is applied. In addition the heat and mass transfer effects in the presence of thermal radiations are also present. The flow is governed by the following expressions
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
subject to the boundary conditions(7)
In above equations
and
are the velocities in the
,
and
directions, respectively,
the constant injection velocity at upper wall,
the pressure,
the kinematic viscosity,
the density,
the electrical conductivity,
the Stefan-Boltzman constant,
the Rosseland mean absorption coefficient,
the concentration of species,
the coefficients of diffusing species,
the temperature and
the thermal diffusity. The fluid phase temperature differences within the flow are sufficiently small so that
may be described as a linear function of temperature. Hence last term in Eq.
is obtained by expanding
in Taylors series about the free-stream temperature
and neglecting higher order terms.
The boundary conditions for the present situation can be written in such a way that denotes the concentration at the surface,
is the concentration far away from the sheet,
is the surface temperature and
is the temperature far away from the surface.
Using [10], [17](8)the continuity equation is automatically satisfied and Eqs.
give
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)
(13)where
is the Reynolds number,
is the ratio of stretching coefficients,
is the dimensionless injection parameter,
is the Schmidt number,
is the thermal radiation and
is the Prandtl number. Note that the constants
and
Now we solve Eqs. along with the boundary conditions (12) by using homotopy analysis method. The details of homotopy analysis method are already included in our various published articles ([12]–[20]) and references there in) hence these are excluded here in order to save space. We choose auxiliary parameters ħf, ħg, ħφ and ħθ for the functions
and
respectively. These auxiliary parameters play a vital role in adjusting the convergence of the obtained series solutions. We have plotted ħ-curves in Figs.
to obtain the permissible values of these auxiliary parameters. It is found that range for admissible values of ħf, ħg, ħφ and ħθ are
ħf, ħg, ħφ ≤−0.3 and
ħθ−0.3 It is noticed that series solutions converge in the whole region of
for ħf, ħg, ħφ and ħθ = 1.0.
Table signifies that how much order of approximations are required for a convergent solution. Obviously 15th order of approximations are sufficient for the analysis under consideration. In order to validate our results, we have given a comparative study of present results with the existing results. The results are in an excellent agreement (displayed in Table 2). Figs. (5–9) are displayed for the effects of different parameters on velocity, concentration and temperature fields. The effects of
on
and
have been depicted in the Figs. 5 and 6. It is seen from Fig. 5 that in view of an increase in Hartman number
the velocity
decreases in the vicinity of stretching sheet
whereas
increases away from the stretching sheet
. This is in accordance with the reason that magnetic field retards the fluid particles and slows down the motion in the vicinity of stretching sheets but obviously to satisfy mass conservation constraint a decrease in fluid velocity in the vicinity of stretching sheets is compensated by an increase in fluid velocity in the upper half of channel due to constant injection at the upper wall. This gives rise to a cross-over behavior which is obvious from Fig. 5. Variation of
on
and
are quite similar (see Fig. 6). The variation of
on the concentration field
is shown in Fig. 7. It is seen that concentration field
and concentration boundary layer are decreasing function of
. Since Schmidt number
is depending inversely on diffusion coefficient
Hence an increase in
shows a decrease in diffusion
This ultimately shows a decrease in concentration field
Fig. 8 elucidates the effects of Prandtl number
on the temperature field
Here temperature field
and thermal boundary layer thickness are decreasing function of
This is because of the reason that larger Prandtl number corresponds to the weaker thermal diffusivity and thinner boundary layer. The influence of thermal radiation parameter
on
are given in Fig. 9. It is observed that thermal radiation causes a slight increase in temperature.
Concluding Remarks
The present study describes the effects of heat and mass transfer on the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) three-dimensional boundary layer flow of viscous fluid between two infinite parallel plates. The main points are summed up as follows:
- • It is observed that magnetic field M retards the flow near the stretching boundary.
- • Injection causes as increase in velocity to compensate the effects of magnetic field so that to mass conservation constraint is satisfied.
- • Prandtl number Pr and radiation parameter Rd show opposite behavior on temperature field
- • Schmidt number
causes a decrease in concentration field
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MA AS. Analyzed the data: MA TH AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA. Wrote the paper: MA. Provided financial support: AA.
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