Chemically reacting dusty viscoelastic fluid flow in an irregular channel with convective boundary

• Main Authors: R. Sivaraj, B. Rushi Kumar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2013-03-01
• Series: Ain Shams Engineering Journal
• Subjects: MHD; Dusty viscoelastic fluid; Chemical reaction; Wavy wall; Convective boundary
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447912000585

In this paper, we have studied the combined effects of free convective heat and mass transfer on an unsteady MHD dusty viscoelastic (Walters liquid model-B) fluid flow between a vertical long wavy wall and a parallel flat wall saturated with porous medium subject to the convective boundary condition. The coupled partial differential equations are solved analytically using perturbation technique. The velocity, temperature and concentration fields have been studied for various combinations of physical parameters such as magnetic field, heat absorption, thermal radiation, radiation absorption, Biot number and chemical reaction parameters. The skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number are also presented and displayed graphically. Further, it is observed that the velocity profiles of dusty fluid are higher than the dust particles.