FREE CONVECTIVE HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FLOW OVER A NON-ISOTHERMAL STRETCHING SHEET WITH ADDED HEAT SOURCE AND THERMAL DIFFUSION IN A SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM

摘要

The present paper deals with the study of MHD free convection and mass transfer flow of an incompressible viscous fluid past a continuously moving non-isothermal infinite vertical sheet in non-Darcy porous media in the presence of large suction under the influence of uniform magnetic field considering heat source and thermal diffusion with viscous dissipation, inertia term and stress work. Introducing the usual similarity transformations, the equations of momentum, energy and concentration are made linear. To obtain the solution of the problem, ordinary differential equations are solved analytically. The effects of various physical parameters such as the magnetic parameter, permeability parameter, inertia parameter, suction/blowing parameter on heat transfer characteristics are analysed. One of the important findings of our study is that of increasing the value of the inertia parameter k_3 decreases the velocity profile and to increase the temperature profile.