Soret and Dufour effects on MHD free convection flow past an impulsively moving vertical plate in the presence of inclined magnetic field

摘要

A comprehensive numerical investigation of Soret and Dufour effects on MHD free convection flow with chemically reacting fluid near an impulsively moving vertical plate in the presence of inclined magnetic field has been carried out. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into a set of coupled partial differential equations using suitable dimensionless quantities. The resulting non-dimensional boundary value problem is solved by the finite element method. In order to notice the influence of different pertinent parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration distributions along boundary layer have been represented with the help of graphs. The effect of flow pertinent parameters on skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number are discussed and presented in tabular form. For the validation of the solutions results are compared with the data available in the literature.