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SORET AND DUFOUR EFFECTS ON MHD FLOW OF A MAXWELL FLUID OVER A STRETCHING SHEET WITH JOULE HEATING
B. Venkateswarlua, P.V. Satya Narayanab,*
a
Department of Mathematics, Madanapalle Institute of Technoloty & Science, Madanapalle, A.P., India
b Department of Mathematics, SAS, VIT University, Vellore – 632014, T.N., India
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Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2017, 9, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.9.11
Abstract
An analysis has been carried out to study the mixed convection flow, heat and mass transfer of an incompressible electrically conducting Maxwell
fluid past a vertical stretching sheet in the presence of chemical reaction with thermal diffusion (Soret) and diffusion-thermo (Dufour) effects. The
governing nonlinear partial differential equations along with the appropriate boundary conditions are non-dimensionalized using suitable similarity
variables. The resulting transformed ordinary differential equations are then solved numerically by shooting technique with fourth order Runge -
Kutta method. The influence of various physical parameters on the flow, heat and mass transfer characteristics are discussed through graphs and
tables. The results are physically interpreted. A comparison with the previously published results has been carried out and the results are found to be
in good agreement. The conclusion is drawn that the flow field, rate of heat and mass transfer coefficients are significantly influenced by Dufour,
Soret and Eckert numbers.
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Venkateswarlu, B., Narayana, P. S. (2017). SORET AND DUFOUR EFFECTS ON MHD FLOW OF A MAXWELL FLUID OVER A STRETCHING SHEET WITH JOULE HEATING.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, 9(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.9.11