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Effect of Variable Thermal Conductivity on Heat and Mass Transfer Flow over a Vertical Channel with Magnetic Field Intensity

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Abstract

The objective of this paper is to study thermal conductivity and magnetic field intensity effects on heat and mass transfer flow over a vertical channel both numerically and analytically. The non-linear partial differential equations governing the flow are non-dimensionalised, simplified and solved using Crank Nicolson type of implicit finite difference method. To check the accuracy of the numerical solution, steady state solutions for velocity, temperature and concentration fields are obtained by using perturbation method. Graphical results for velocity, temperature, concentration, skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number have been obtained, to show the effects of different parameters entering in the problem. Results from these study shows that velocity, temperature and concentration increases with the increase in the dimensionless time until they reach steady state value. Also, it was observed that the analytical and numerical solutions agree very well at large values of time.

Published in Applied and Computational Mathematics (Volume 3, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.acm.20140302.12
Page(s) 48-56
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Keywords

Thermal Conductivity, Heat and Mass Transfer, Magnetic Field, Thermal Radiation

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  • Department of Mathematics, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

  • Department of Mathematics, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

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